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OLIOS

5 letters

Definition of OLIOS

noun

plural of olio

OLIO

noun

A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.

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Word DNA

OLIOS inherits its ancestry from its root, OLIO.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Portuguese
  3. Spanish
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,723)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, OLIO · 1 relative in the game

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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.

OLIOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 21 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
38
First board
149
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

lalabeth

on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OLIOS
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OLIOS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ILOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Could you have found OLIOS?

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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.

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