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YEASTING
Definition of YEASTING
verb
present participle and gerund of yeast
noun
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
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Word DNA
YEASTING inherits its ancestry from its root, YEAST.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (976)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, YEAST · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, 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.
YEASTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
YEASTING starts with Y and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start YEASTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found YEASTING?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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