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WHARFINGS

9 letters

Definition of WHARFINGS

noun

plural of wharfing

WHARFING

noun

Wharfs collectively.

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Word DNA

WHARFINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, WHARFING.

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, WHARFING · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

WHARFINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 42 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
42
Boards found on
25
First board
151
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

gnathan

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHARFINGS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WHARFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHARFINGS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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