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NEWFANGLED
Definition of NEWFANGLED
adjective
New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NEWFANGLE · 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.
NEWFANGLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NEWFANGLED starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEFGLNNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Words that start NEWFAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NEWFANGLED?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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