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GELLING

/ˈd͡ʒɛlɪŋ/7 letters

Definition of GELLING

verb

present participle and gerund of gel

GEL

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Fakkanci.

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Word DNA

GELLING 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

verb2 syllables

Same root, GEL · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GELLING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
161
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

mama_mendy

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GELLING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GELLING starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGGILLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found GELLING?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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