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WAITING
Definition of WAITING
verb
present participle and gerund of wait
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English waitinge, waytynge, waitende, weytende, waitand, waytand, equivalent to wait + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WAITING in OUTLIER
It has fitted 42 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WAITING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIINTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found WAITING?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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