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REPEL
Definition of REPEL
verb
To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
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).
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.
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
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
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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