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WHINGES
Definition of WHINGES
noun
plural of whinge
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Other senses
WHINGES carries 2 further meanings.
noun
Plural form of whinge.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whinge.
Word DNA
WHINGES inherits its ancestry from its root, WHINGE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,584)
How it is built
Same root, WHINGE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHINGES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 142 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHINGES starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGHINSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WHINGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found WHINGES?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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