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GIRANDOLA
Definition of GIRANDOLA
noun
Alternative form of girandole.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian girandola.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (548)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GIRANDOLA · 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.
GIRANDOLA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GIRANDOLA starts with G and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AADGILNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start GIRAND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GIRANDOLA?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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