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GRUELLING
Definition of GRUELLING
adjective
Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, gruel + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GRUEL · 6 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRUELLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRUELLING starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGGILLNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GRUELL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRUELLING?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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