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GUILEFUL
Definition of GUILEFUL
adjective
Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gileful, gilful, equivalent to guile + -ful.
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.
GUILEFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GUILEFUL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EFGILLUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and L appear more than once.
Words that start GUILEF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUILEFUL?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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