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FANGY

5 letters

Definition of FANGY

adjective

Containing fangs; full of sharp teeth.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From fang + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, FANG · 9 relatives in the game

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.

FANGY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 3 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
156
First board
161
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

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on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FANGY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FANGY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFGNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found FANGY?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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