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GLOAM
Definition of GLOAM
noun
Clipping of gloaming (“twilight”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
GLOAM carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Twilight; gloaming.
noun
The gloaming.
To grow dark: as, it begins to gloam.
2. To be sullen; gloom.
Where it comes from
Back-formation from gloaming.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GLOAM · 3 relatives in the game
GLOAM in a sentence
“"gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLOAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 83 boards so far. 415 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLOAM starts with G and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AGLMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of GLOAM. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start GLOAM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found GLOAM?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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