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STRANGLE
Definition of STRANGLE
verb
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English worien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,608)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STRANGLE · 2 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.
STRANGLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
STRANGLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGLNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STRANG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found STRANGLE?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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