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WHINGER
Definition of WHINGER
noun
One who whinges.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WHINGER carries 2 further meanings.
noun
A dirk or long knife.
noun
A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Where it comes from
From whinge + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WHING · 2 relatives in the game
WHINGER in a sentence
“A large part of the problem is imagining how much everyone hates me being such a moany whinger, which isn't helped when people tell me I am - the whole "It could be worse" scenario.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHINGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHINGER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGHINRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of WHINGER. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start WHINGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found WHINGER?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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