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WORTHYING
Definition of WORTHYING
verb
present participle and gerund of worthy
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Word DNA
WORTHYING inherits its ancestry from its root, WORTHY.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,204)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WORTHY · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Middle Low German, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WORTHYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 60 days.
Built from these letters
WORTHYING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHINORTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found WORTHYING?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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