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GLEYED

/ˈɡleɪd/6 letters

Definition of GLEYED

verb

simple past and past participle of gley

GLEY

noun

A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

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Word DNA

GLEYED inherits its ancestry from its root, GLEY.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Slavic
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,787)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, GLEY · 6 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GLEYED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 6 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
74
First board
166
Latest board
54
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

ilovepickles

on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GLEYED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GLEYED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGLY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Could you have found GLEYED?

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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.

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