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WONGAS
Definition of WONGAS
Wiktionary has no entry for WONGAS itself. This is its base word, WONGA.
noun
Money.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for WONGA.
Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani angar (“coal”), from Sanskrit अङ्गार (áṅgāra, “charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hángāras, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥. The English term coal was itself used as a slang term for money in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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.
WONGAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WONGAS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGNOSW - 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.
Could you have found WONGAS?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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