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NARGILEHS
Definition of NARGILEHS
noun
plural of nargileh
NARGHILE · via nargileh
noun
A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NARGILEH · 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.
NARGILEHS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
Built from these letters
NARGILEHS 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 NARGIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NARGILEHS?
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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