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STOCKING
Definition of STOCKING
noun
A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STOCKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
STOCKING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGIKNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STOCKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found STOCKING?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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