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GARGLE
Definition of GARGLE
verb
To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French gargouiller (“to gargle”), from Old French gargouille, gargole (“gutter, throat”). Compare gargoyle and Spanish garganta. Displaced non-native Middle English gargargisen (“to gargle”) from Latin, and native Old English swillan (“to gargle”) (ancestor of English swill).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARGLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
GARGLE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGGLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
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 GARGLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GARGLE?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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