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GELT

/ɡɛlt/4 letters

Definition of GELT

noun

A lunatic.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Irish geilt.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GELT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 26 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
22
First board
102
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mscottPATRON

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GELT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGLT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GELT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GELT?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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