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GOALMOUTH

9 letters

Definition of GOALMOUTH

noun

The area in front of the goal.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From goal + mouth.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GOALMOUTH · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GOALMOUTH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 3 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
37
First board
142
Latest board
90
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

gideascheeberg

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GOALMOUTH
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GOALMOUTH starts with G and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AGHLMOOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start GOALMO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GOALMOUTH?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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