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YARLS
Definition of YARLS
noun
plural of yarl
YARL
noun
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Word DNA
YARLS inherits its ancestry from its root, YARL.
How it is built
Same root, YARL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YARLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 171, 7 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 171, 7 November 2026.
Built from these letters
YARLS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found YARLS?
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 171 - and most players walked straight past it.
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