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GLOM
Definition of GLOM
verb
To take.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,598)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GLOM · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLOM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 68 boards so far. 224 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLOM starts with G and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GLMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GLOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GLOM?
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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