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REPEL

/ɹɪˈpɛl/5 letters

Definition of REPEL

verb

To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English repellen, a borrowing from Old French *repeller, from Latin repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”). Doublet of repeal.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

REPEL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
103
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

sister3

on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

REPEL starts with R and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EELPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start REPEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

REPELSREPELLEDREPELLERREPELLANTREPELLENTREPELLERSREPELLINGREPELLANCEREPELLANCYREPELLANTSREPELLENCEREPELLENCY

Could you have found REPEL?

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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.

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