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DARG

/dɑːɡ/4 letters

Definition of DARG

noun

A day's work.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

First attested in late Middle English; a syncopic form of daywork, developed through the series of forms: daywork → daywerk → daywark → dawark → *da’ark → dark → darg.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,325)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, DARG · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English 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.

DARG in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 178
Its 14 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
72
First board
154
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First ever to find it

oizen

on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DARG
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DARG starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADGR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DARG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DARG?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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