The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ALNAGES
Definition of ALNAGES
noun
plural of alnage
ALNAGE
noun
Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of woollen cloth, and attestation of its value by the affixing of a lead seal, as was once required by British law.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
ALNAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, ALNAGE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (826)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALNAGE · 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.
ALNAGES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALNAGES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEGLNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ALNAGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALNAGES?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER