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LAGANS
Definition of LAGANS
Wiktionary has no entry for LAGANS itself. This is its base word, LAGAN.
noun
Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for LAGAN.
Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lǫg (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- Latin
- Old French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (822)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LAGAN · 3 relatives 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.
LAGANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
LAGANS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAGLNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found LAGANS?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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