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TOUCHING
Definition of TOUCHING
verb
present participle and gerund of touch
verb
Primarily physical senses. To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,202)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOUCH · 4 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.
TOUCHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TOUCHING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGHINOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOUCHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found TOUCHING?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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