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GAYAL

/ɡəˈjæl/5 letters

Definition of GAYAL

noun

Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of domestic cattle.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Bengali গয়াল (goẏal), from Sanskrit गौ॒रः (gauráḥ) or Sanskrit गौः (gauḥ). Doublet of gaur.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GAYAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
100
First board
101
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

merlin

on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAYAL
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GAYAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GAYALS

Could you have found GAYAL?

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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.

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