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GAMELAN
Definition of GAMELAN
noun
A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a suling).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Javanese gamelan, from Old Javanese gamĕlan.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GAMELAN · 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.
GAMELAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GAMELAN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEGLMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found GAMELAN?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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