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GIRLS
About GIRLS
GIRLS is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
GIRLS inherits its ancestry from its root, GIRL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (889)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GIRL · 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.
GIRLS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
Built from these letters
GIRLS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GIRLS?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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