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KANGS
Definition of KANGS
noun
plural of kang
noun
A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
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Word DNA
KANGS inherits its ancestry from its root, KANG.
Line of descent
- Chinese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
33rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (149)
branch · 0.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KANG · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KANGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KANGS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGKNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found KANGS?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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