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GOALS
Definition of GOALS
adjective
Extremely admirable; worthy of being set as a goal and emulated.
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Word DNA
GOALS inherits its ancestry from its root, GOAL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (993)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GOAL · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Russian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOALS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGLOS - 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.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found GOALS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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