The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

GULL

/ˈɡʌl/4 letters

Definition of GULL

noun

A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).

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.

GULL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
76
First board
117
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

draginous

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GULL
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GULL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read GLLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start GULL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GULLSGULLYGULLEDGULLERGULLETGULLEYGULLERSGULLERYGULLETSGULLEYSGULLIEDGULLIES

Could you have found GULL?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share GULL

The OUTLIER card for GULLDownload image