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GNARLS
Definition of GNARLS
noun
plural of gnarl
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Other senses
GNARLS carries 2 further meanings.
noun
Plural form of gnarl.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gnarl.
Word DNA
GNARLS inherits its ancestry from its root, GNARL.
How it is built
Same root, GNARL · 2 relatives in the game
GNARLS in a sentence
“Perhaps no tissue in the human body is more radiation sensitive than the "gnarls" cells of the developing and mature ovarian follicles in human female ovaries.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GNARLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GNARLS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGLNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found GNARLS?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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