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AGONAL
Definition of AGONAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to struggle, competition or conflict; of or pertaining to an agon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
AGONAL carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Associated with or relating to great pain, especially the agony of death.
Relating to or occurring during the agony or death-struggle. See the extract.
adjective
Of or pertaining to the pain of death
adjective
pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies)
Where it comes from
From agon + -al; cognate with agony.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AGONAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 79 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AGONAL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAGLNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found AGONAL?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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