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AIOLI

/aɪˈəʊlɪ/5 letters

Definition of AIOLI

noun

A type of sauce made from garlic and olive oil, often with egg and lemon juice and similar to mayonnaise.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French aïoli, from Occitan alhòli, from alh (“garlic”) + òli (“oil”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,418)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound

Same root, AIOLI · 1 relative in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

AIOLI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 144 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 54 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
54
Boards found on
28
First board
168
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

pierogituxedo

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AIOLI
5
Letters
4
Vowels
1
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

AIOLI starts with A and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AIILO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start AIOLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AIOLI?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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