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GAGES

5 letters

Definition of GAGES

noun

plural of gage

GAGE

verb

To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

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Word DNA

GAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, GAG.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Norwegian

Deepest traced root

38th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (42)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, GAG · 4 relatives in the game

Every Norwegian word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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

GAGES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 135
Its one board, across 135 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

catinvirginiaPATRON

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAGES
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GAGES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGGS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.

Could you have found GAGES?

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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