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STEADINGS

9 letters

Definition of STEADINGS

noun

plural of steading

STEADING

noun

A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.

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Word DNA

STEADINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, STEAD.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,866)

How it is built

noun

Same root, STEAD · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

STEADINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

wdavidfrost

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STEADINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

STEADINGS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGINSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start STEADI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STEADIEDSTEADIERSTEADIESSTEADILYSTEADINGSTEADIERSSTEADIESTSTEADINESSSTEADINESSES

Could you have found STEADINGS?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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