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GLOWER
Definition of GLOWER
verb
To look or stare with anger.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. By surface analysis, glow + -er (fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GLOWER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 180 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GLOWER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGLORW - 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 GLOWER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found GLOWER?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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