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TEMPERING

9 letters

Definition of TEMPERING

verb

present participle and gerund of temper

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TEMPERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 12 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
29
First board
102
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TEMPERING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TEMPERING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGIMNPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TEMPER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TEMPERTEMPERATEMPERSTEMPERASTEMPEREDTEMPERERTEMPERATETEMPERERSTEMPERABLETEMPERANCETEMPERATEDTEMPERATES

Could you have found TEMPERING?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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