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GABBED

/ɡæbd/6 letters

Definition of GABBED

verb

simple past and past participle of gab

GAB

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Gabri.

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Word DNA

GABBED inherits its ancestry from its root, GAB.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Old Norse
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,470)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, GAB · 13 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GABBED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
151
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

felicisPATRON

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GABBED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GABBED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABBDEG - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found GABBED?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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