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WHISTING

8 letters

Definition of WHISTING

verb

present participle and gerund of whist

WHIST

noun

Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.

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Word DNA

WHISTING inherits its ancestry from its root, WHIST.

How it is built

verb

Same root, WHIST · 3 relatives 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.

WHISTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 23 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
29
First board
150
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

alierecast

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHISTING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found WHISTING?

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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