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GALINGALES

10 letters

Definition of GALINGALES

noun

plural of galingale

GALANGAL · via galingale

noun

Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.

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Word DNA

GALINGALES inherits its ancestry from its root, GALINGALE.

Line of descent

  1. Chinese
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Persian
  4. Arabic
  5. Old French
  6. Middle English
  7. English

6 recorded generations before English.

Chinese

Deepest traced root

33rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (167)

Sinitic

branch · 0.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GALINGALE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GALINGALES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
173
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

surliertexanPATRON

on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GALINGALES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GALINGALES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEGGILLNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G, A and L appear more than once.

Words that start GALING

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GALINGALES?

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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.

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