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AGAIN

/əˈɡɛn/5 letters

Definition of AGAIN

adverb

Another time: indicating a repeat of an action.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Cognate with German entgegen (“contrary to”), North Frisian ijen (“against”), Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”), and Icelandic í gegnum (“through”). By surface analysis, on- + gain (“against”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

AGAIN in OUTLIER

It has fitted 15 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 106
Its 15 boards, across 106 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards it fitted
16
First board
105
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

AGAIN
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AGAIN starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAGIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A 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.

AINGA

Words that start AGAIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AGAIN?

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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.

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