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THOLE
Definition of THOLE
verb
To suffer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English thōle, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare Norwegian Bokmål tåle.
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.
THOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
THOLE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start THOLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found THOLE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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