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YEARNINGS

9 letters

Definition of YEARNINGS

noun

plural of yearning

YEARNING

noun

A wistful or melancholy longing.

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Word DNA

YEARNINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, YEARN.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,166)

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, YEARN · 6 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · 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.

YEARNINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its one board, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
23
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

wdavidfrost

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YEARNINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

YEARNINGS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGINNRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start YEARNI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

YEARNINGYEARNINGLY

Could you have found YEARNINGS?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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