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GUILES

/ɡaɪlz/6 letters

Definition of GUILES

noun

plural of guile

GUILE

noun

Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

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Word DNA

GUILES inherits its ancestry from its root, GUILE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Old French
  5. Anglo-Norman
  6. Middle English
  7. English

6 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,201)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, GUILE · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GUILES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 109 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 56 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
56
Boards found on
6
First board
156
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

GUILES
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found GUILES?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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