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WOOLEN
Definition of WOOLEN
adjective
Made of wool.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,856)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WOOLEN · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOOLEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 113 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 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
WOOLEN starts with W and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ELNOOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found WOOLEN?
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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