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WHARVING

8 letters

Definition of WHARVING

verb

present participle and gerund of wharve

WHARVE

verb

To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).

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Word DNA

WHARVING inherits its ancestry from its root, WHARVE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (4,052)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, WHARVE · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic.

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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.

WHARVING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 5 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
148
First board
163
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

emjay

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHARVING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found WHARVING?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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