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TRAILING

/ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of TRAILING

adjective

That converge in the direction of travel.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

TRAILING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 18 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
26
First board
102
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

fuzzytorpedoes

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRAILING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TRAILING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIILNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I 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 TRAILI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TRAILINGLY

Could you have found TRAILING?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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