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GIMLET
Definition of GIMLET
noun
A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in Modern French as gibelet. Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GIMLET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GIMLET starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGILMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GIMLET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GIMLET?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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