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ERLANG
Definition of ERLANG
noun
A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Named after Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Danish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
36th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (133)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ERLANG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ERLANG starts with E and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGLNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ERLANG?
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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.
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