The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
UNGUAL
Definition of UNGUAL
adjective
Pertaining to or resembling a creature's nail, claw or hoof; unguinal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
UNGUAL carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Of, resembling, or bearing a hoof, nail, or claw.
adjective
Of or relating to fingernails or toenails.
Of, pertaining to, shaped like, or bearing a nail, claw, or hoof; unguicular; ungular.
noun
An ungual phalanx or claw.
Where it comes from
From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”) + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
UNGUAL in a sentence
“This is called the ungual crest and helps anchor the keratinous covering of the claw onto the ungual: it's present in some sloths and anteaters too, and outside of xenarthrans is seen in cats.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNGUAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
UNGUAL starts with U and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AGLNUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found UNGUAL?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER