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SNAG
Definition of SNAG
noun
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch. Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see the Dutch-origin fish names snoek and snook.
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.
SNAG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SNAG starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGNS - 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 SNAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found SNAG?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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