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TAXING
Definition of TAXING
adjective
With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).
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.
TAXING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TAXING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found TAXING?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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