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YARDANGS
Definition of YARDANGS
noun
plural of yardang
noun
A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
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Word DNA
YARDANGS inherits its ancestry from its root, YARDANG.
Line of descent
- Turkish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
32nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (176)
branch · 0.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, YARDANG · 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.
YARDANGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YARDANGS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADGNRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found YARDANGS?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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