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GELES

5 letters

Definition of GELES

noun

plural of gele

GELE

noun

A traditional head tie native to Yoruba women of West Africa (Nigeria, Benin and Togo).

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Word DNA

GELES inherits its ancestry from its root, GEL.

Line of descent

  1. Russian
  2. Proto-Indo-European
  3. Italian
  4. French
  5. Latin
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Russian

Deepest traced root

20th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.5%

of traced words share this origin (386)

Slavic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, GEL · 4 relatives in the game

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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.

GELES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its 3 boards, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
153
First board
158
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

viridianPATRON

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GELES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E 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.

Could you have found GELES?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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