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TALKING

/ˈtɔːkɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of TALKING

noun

The action of the verb talk.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English talkynge. By surface analysis, talk + -ing.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

TALKING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 7 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
23
First board
98
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

TALKING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TALKING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIKLNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start TALKIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TALKINGSTALKINESSTALKINESSES

Could you have found TALKING?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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