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WEDDINGS

8 letters

Definition of WEDDINGS

noun

plural of wedding

WEDDING

noun

A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

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Word DNA

WEDDINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, WEDDING.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,211)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Its etymology also names Middle Dutch.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WEDDINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

hurl777

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WEDDINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WEDDINGS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DDEGINSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

SWINDGED

Words that start WEDDIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WEDDINGS?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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