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NARGHILY
Definition of NARGHILY
noun
Alternative form 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
NARGHILY inherits its ancestry from its root, NARGHILE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (741)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NARGHILE · 9 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.
NARGHILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 85 days.
Built from these letters
NARGHILY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHILNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NARGHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NARGHILY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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