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GAGE
Definition of GAGE
verb
To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (946)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 134, 1 October 2026.
Built from these letters
GAGE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGG - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Words that start GAGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GAGE?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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