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GAMELANS

8 letters

Definition of GAMELANS

noun

plural of gamelan

GAMELAN

noun

A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a suling).

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Word DNA

GAMELANS inherits its ancestry from its root, GAMELAN.

How it is built

noun

Same root, GAMELAN · 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.

GAMELANS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 31 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
31
Boards found on
27
First board
156
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

lxjdr

on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAMELANS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GAMELANS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEGLMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start GAMELA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GAMELANS?

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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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