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GAIT

/ɡeɪt/4 letters

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).

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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.

GAIT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 215 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 45 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
45
Boards found on
9
First board
107
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

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

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.

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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