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ANTALGICS

9 letters

Definition of ANTALGICS

noun

plural of antalgic

ANTALGIC

adjective

alleviating pain

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Word DNA

ANTALGICS inherits its ancestry from its root, ANTALGIC.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,660)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-icanti-

Same root, ANTALGIC · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names French.

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ANTALGICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its 8 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
79
First board
141
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

taohuayuan

on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

ANTALGICS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ANTALG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ANTALGICS?

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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.

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