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TWEAKING
Definition of TWEAKING
verb
present participle and gerund of tweak
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Word DNA
TWEAKING inherits its ancestry from its root, TWEAK.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,759)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TWEAK · 8 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.
TWEAKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 73 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TWEAKING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIKNTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TWEAKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found TWEAKING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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