The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WADDING
Definition of WADDING
noun
Wads collectively.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From wad + -ing (“material, collection”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WADD · 2 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.
WADDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WADDING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADDGINW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found WADDING?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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