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ASSEGAI
Definition of ASSEGAI
noun
A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,157)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ASSEGAI · 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.
ASSEGAI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASSEGAI starts with A and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AAEGISS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ASSEGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASSEGAI?
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