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WANING
Definition of WANING
verb
present participle and gerund of wane
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,919)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WAN · 6 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.
WANING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.
Built from these letters
WANING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
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 WANING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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