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NUGGETED
Definition of NUGGETED
Wiktionary has no entry for NUGGETED itself. This is its base word, NUGGET.
noun
A small, compact chunk or clump.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for NUGGET.
Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NUGGETED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NUGGETED starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGGNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start NUGGET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NUGGETED?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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