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GLEY
Definition of GLEY
noun
A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
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Where it comes from
1920s, from Ukrainian ґлей (glej, “clayey soil”), from Proto-Slavic *glьjь, from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Cognate of clay.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GLEY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGLY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GLEY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GLEY?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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