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VELARIZING
Definition of VELARIZING
verb
present participle and gerund of velarize
verb
To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.
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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.
VELARIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
Built from these letters
VELARIZING starts with V and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIILNRVZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start VELARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.
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