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GINNEL
Definition of GINNEL
noun
A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dialectal ginn (“road or passage down to the sea”) + -el (diminutive suffix), ultimately from Old English gin (“an opening, gap, abyss”) or Old Norse gin (“throat, gullet, maw”), both from Proto-Germanic *giną (“throat, gullet”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.5%
of traced words share this origin (936)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GINNEL · 1 relative 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.
GINNEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
GINNEL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EGILNN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found GINNEL?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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