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ATOLLS
Definition of ATOLLS
noun
plural of atoll
noun
A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform.
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Word DNA
ATOLLS inherits its ancestry from its root, ATOLL.
Line of descent
- Persian
- Sanskrit
- Portuguese
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
18th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (147)
branch · 0.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ATOLL · 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.
ATOLLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ATOLLS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALLOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ATOLLS?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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