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DANGER
Definition of DANGER
noun
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
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.
DANGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DANGER starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEGNR - 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 DANGER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DANGER?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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