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WASTERING
Definition of WASTERING
Wiktionary has no entry for WASTERING itself. This is its base word, WASTER.
noun
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for WASTER.
From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,258)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WASTER · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Anglo-Norman, Old French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WASTERING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 42 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WASTERING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WASTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WASTERING?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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