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YARDINGS
Definition of YARDINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for YARDINGS itself. This is its base word, YARD.
noun
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for YARD.
From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”). See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian grad (“town”), Slovene grad (“castle”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard (“fence”), Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, habitation, home, dwelling”)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus (“garden, yard”). Doublet of garden, garth, and gord.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YARDINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
YARDINGS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADGINRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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