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WOOL
Definition of WOOL
noun
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ull, Danish uld; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana. The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ⟨wu⟩ in favour of ⟨wo⟩, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, WOOL · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Welsh.
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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.
WOOL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOOL starts with W and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read LOOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start WOOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found WOOL?
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