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JOWL
Definition of JOWL
noun
The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English jawle, chawl, chavel (“jaw, jawbone”), from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl (“jaw, cheek”). The modern form (for expected chavel, chawl; still found dialectally) is influenced by jaw, which it is a partial doublet of.
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.
JOWL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JOWL starts with J and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read JLOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JOWL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found JOWL?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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