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WEIRDING

8 letters

Definition of WEIRDING

verb

present participle and gerund of weird

WEIRD

adjective

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

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Word DNA

WEIRDING inherits its ancestry from its root, WEIRD.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,636)

How it is built

verb

Same root, WEIRD · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

WEIRDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 28 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
39
First board
151
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

cicero

on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WEIRDING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WEIRDING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGIINRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start WEIRDI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WEIRDIEWEIRDIESWEIRDISH

Could you have found WEIRDING?

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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.

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