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GLEE
Definition of GLEE
noun
Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLEE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GLEE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GLEE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found GLEE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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