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YELT
Definition of YELT
noun
A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Probably cognate to the equivelant English gilt, from Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld (“castrate”), Old Norse galtr, gǫltr (“castrated boar, hog”), Danish galt, Icelandic göltur, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Swedish galt (“boar, hog”); as well as English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”), Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), Old Danish gold, Old Swedish galder (“infertile, fruitless”).
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.
YELT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YELT starts with Y and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ELTY - 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.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found YELT?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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