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TERRACING
Definition of TERRACING
verb
present participle and gerund of terrace
TERRACE
noun
A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
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Word DNA
TERRACING inherits its ancestry from its root, TERRACE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old Occitan
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,276)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TERRACE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TERRACING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TERRACING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACEGINRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TERRAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TERRACING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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