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OILERS
Definition of OILERS
noun
plural of oiler
noun
One who or that which oils. An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, mainly responsible for keeping machinery lubricated. Any of various automatic devices for oiling pneumatic tools or other tools.
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Word DNA
OILERS inherits its ancestry from its root, OIL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,145)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OIL · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Proto-Slavic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OILERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OILERS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found OILERS?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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