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CLEG
Definition of CLEG
noun
a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
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Where it comes from
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLEG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CLEG starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CLEG?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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