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LIANG
Definition of LIANG
noun
Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.
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Where it comes from
The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩 / 两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
33rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (145)
branch · 0.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LIANG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 57, 16 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LIANG starts with L and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGILN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 57
Could you have found LIANG?
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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.
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