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AGNAIL

/ˈæɡneɪl/6 letters

Definition of AGNAIL

noun

Torn skin near a toenail or fingernail.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English agnail, from Old English angnægl, from ang- + nægl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

9.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,359)

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompoundang-

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

AGNAIL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its one board, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
128
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

hortonwhoPATRON

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AGNAIL
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AGNAIL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAGILN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start AGNAIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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