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WAIL
Definition of WAIL
verb
To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
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Where it comes from
c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy. The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14 c.. The noun came from the verb.
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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.
WAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WAIL starts with W and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AILW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 WAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found WAIL?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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