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NARGHILES
Definition of NARGHILES
noun
plural of narghile
noun
A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.
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Word DNA
NARGHILES inherits its ancestry from its root, NARGHILE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (254)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NARGHILE · 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.
NARGHILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NARGHILES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGHILNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NARGHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found NARGHILES?
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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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