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GOATLIKE

8 letters

Definition of GOATLIKE

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a goat.

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Other senses

GOATLIKE carries 2 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Like a goat; goatish.

  2. adjective

    Resembling a goat or some aspect of one.

Where it comes from

From goat + -like.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-like

Same root, GOAT · 13 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

GOATLIKE in a sentence

“The face that looked up at me was gray and goatlike.”

Crossed, 2011

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.

GOATLIKE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 88 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 31 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
31
Boards found on
59
First board
158
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

phobrek

on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GOATLIKE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GOATLIKE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGIKLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of GOATLIKE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

Words that start GOATLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GOATLINGGOATLINGS

Could you have found GOATLIKE?

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