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GAOL
Definition of GAOL
noun
Dated spelling of jail.
noun
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GAOL · 3 relatives 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.
GAOL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 82 boards so far. 335 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GAOL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AGLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 GAOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found GAOL?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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