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GLOMEROUS
Definition of GLOMEROUS
adjective
Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin glomerosus, from glomus. See glome.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLOMEROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 157, 24 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 157, 24 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GLOMEROUS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGLMOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start GLOMER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GLOMEROUS?
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 157 - and most players walked straight past it.
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