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DRAGNET
Definition of DRAGNET
noun
A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From drag + net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (“dragnet”), equivalent to dray + net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DRAGNET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRAGNET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 56 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DRAGNET starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADEGNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found DRAGNET?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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