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WRANGLED

8 letters

Definition of WRANGLED

verb

simple past and past participle of wrangle

WRANGLE

verb

To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending. Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining. To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner. To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling. To herd (horses or other livestock). To manage or supervise (people). To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.

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Word DNA

WRANGLED inherits its ancestry from its root, WRANGLE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Middle Low German
  3. Middle Dutch
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (981)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, WRANGLE · 2 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WRANGLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 85 boards so far. 412 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 85 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
85
Boards found on
8
First board
150
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

WRANGLED
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WRANGLED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEGLNRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WRANGL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WRANGLED?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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