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ANGST
Definition of ANGST
noun
Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44. The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz; related to anguish, Dutch angst, Swedish ångest.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Germanic
- Danish
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ANGST · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANGST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANGST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 ANGST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found ANGST?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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