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GAIT
Definition of GAIT
noun
A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.
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.
GAIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 215 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GAIT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGIT - 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.
Words that start GAIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found GAIT?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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