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NAGAPIES

8 letters

Definition of NAGAPIES

noun

plural of nagapie

NAGAPIE

noun

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Word DNA

NAGAPIES inherits its ancestry from its root, NAGAPIE.

Line of descent

  1. Afrikaans
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Afrikaans

Deepest traced root

35th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (153)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, NAGAPIE · 1 relative in the game

NAGAPIE

Every Afrikaans 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.

NAGAPIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its one board, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
168
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

mufeed

on Day 168, 4 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NAGAPIES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

NAGAPIES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEGINPS - 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.

Words that start NAGAPI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NAGAPIE

Could you have found NAGAPIES?

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 168 - and most players walked straight past it.

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