The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GLADLIER
Definition of GLADLIER
adverb
comparative form of gladly: more gladly
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
GLADLIER inherits its ancestry from its root, GLADLY.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,150)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GLADLY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLADLIER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLADLIER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEGILLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
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 GLADLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GLADLIER?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER