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GOEL

4 letters

Definition of GOEL

adjective

yellow

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Compare yellow.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

GOEL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 4 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
37
First board
83
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

hayveon

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

Built from these letters

GOEL
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GOEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GOEL?

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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