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GHOUL
Definition of GHOUL
noun
A demon said to feed on corpses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French goule, from Persian غول (ġul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,064)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GHOUL · 9 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GHOUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 95 boards so far. 429 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GHOUL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read GHLOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GHOUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found GHOUL?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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