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WEAKLING

/ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/8 letters

Definition of WEAKLING

noun

A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From weak + -ling.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ling

Same root, WEAK · 10 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WEAKLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 147 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 29 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
29
Boards found on
19
First board
156
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WEAKLING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WEAKLING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIKLNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WEAKLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WEAKLIERWEAKLIESTWEAKLINGSWEAKLINESSWEAKLINESSES

Could you have found WEAKLING?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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