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GARLIC
Definition of GARLIC
noun
A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,881)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GARLIC · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARLIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GARLIC starts with G and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACGILR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GARLIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found GARLIC?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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