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GAMBOLLED

9 letters

Definition of GAMBOLLED

verb

simple past and past participle of gambol

GAMBOL

verb

To move about playfully; to frolic.

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Word DNA

GAMBOLLED inherits its ancestry from its root, GAMBOL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (336)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, GAMBOL · 4 relatives in the game

Every Middle French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

GAMBOLLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its one board, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

mys93

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAMBOLLED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GAMBOLLED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEGLLMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start GAMBOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GAMBOLLED?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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