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UNGUENT
Definition of UNGUENT
noun
Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,251)
How it is built
Same root, UNGUENT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German, Russian, Welsh.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNGUENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNGUENT starts with U and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGNNTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and N appear more than once.
Words that start UNGUEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UNGUENT?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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