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STENCHING

9 letters

Definition of STENCHING

verb

present participle and gerund of stench

STENCH

noun

a strong foul smell; a stink.

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Word DNA

STENCHING inherits its ancestry from its root, STENCH.

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 (11,506)

How it is built

verb

Same root, STENCH · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.

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

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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.

STENCHING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its one board, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 159, 26 October 2026.

Built from these letters

STENCHING
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start STENCH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found STENCHING?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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