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GOULASH
Definition of GOULASH
noun
A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOULASH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 224 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOULASH starts with G and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AGHLOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GOULAS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found GOULASH?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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