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VELVETING
Definition of VELVETING
verb
present participle and gerund of velvet
noun
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
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Word DNA
VELVETING inherits its ancestry from its root, VELVET.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,667)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VELVET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VELVETING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VELVETING starts with V and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGILNTVV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. V and E appear more than once.
Words that start VELVET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VELVETING?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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