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EXUL

4 letters

Definition of EXUL

noun

An exile; a person who is exiled.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, EXUL · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

EXUL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its 4 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
99
First board
145
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

darkliquidPATRONContributor

on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EXUL
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EXUL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ELUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start EXUL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EXUL?

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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