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VOLUNTEERING

12 letters

Definition of VOLUNTEERING

noun

The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service.

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Word DNA

VOLUNTEERING inherits its ancestry from its root, VOLUNTEER.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,487)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-eer

Same root, VOLUNTEER · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

VOLUNTEERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its one board, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

radbaron

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VOLUNTEERING
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VOLUNTEERING starts with V and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEGILNNORTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start VOLUNTEE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VOLUNTEERING?

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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