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GLOB
Definition of GLOB
noun
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
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Where it comes from
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.) In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour. (Can this etymology be sourced?)
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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.
GLOB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GLOB starts with G and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BGLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 GLOB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found GLOB?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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