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GANGS

5 letters

Definition of GANGS

noun

plural of gang

GANG

verb

To go; walk; proceed.

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Word DNA

GANGS inherits its ancestry from its root, GANG.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

noun

Same root, GANG · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic, Norwegian, Sanskrit, Scots, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

GANGS 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
134
First board
161
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 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

dl22

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GANGS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGGNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.

Words that start GANGS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GANGSTAGANGSHAGGANGSMANGANGSMENGANGSTASGANGSTERGANGSHAGSGANGSTERSGANGSHAGGEDGANGSTERDOMGANGSTERISHGANGSTERISM

Could you have found GANGS?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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