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ALLEGIANCE
Definition of ALLEGIANCE
noun
Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,501)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALLEGIANCE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALLEGIANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
ALLEGIANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEEGILLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, L and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ALLEGI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALLEGIANCE?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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