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WAITERING
Definition of WAITERING
noun
gerund of waiter: the work of a waiter, serving customers at their tables with food and drink.
noun
A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From waiter + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WAIT · 16 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.
WAITERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WAITERING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIINRTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start WAITER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found WAITERING?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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