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UPHANGS
Definition of UPHANGS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of uphang
UPHANG
verb
To hang up.
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Word DNA
UPHANGS inherits its ancestry from its root, UPHANG.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,019)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, UPHANG · 1 relative 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.
UPHANGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPHANGS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGHNPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start UPHANG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UPHANGS?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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