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DOOLE

/duːl/5 letters

Definition of DOOLE

noun

sorrow; dole

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

DOOLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 6 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
72
First board
97
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

ann80lovewords

on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOOLE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DOOLE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DELOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O 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.

Words that start DOOLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DOOLEEDOOLESDOOLEES

Could you have found DOOLE?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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