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GALUMPH

/ɡəˈlʌmf/7 letters

Definition of GALUMPH

verb

To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.

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Other senses

GALUMPH carries 3 further meanings.

  1. intransitive verb

    To move or run clumsily or heavily.

  2. verb

    To move heavily and clumsily.

  3. verb

    move around heavily and clumsily

Where it comes from

Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, GALUMPH · 3 relatives in the game

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GALUMPH in a sentence

“So we walked on, me in galumph-appreciative reverie, and stumbled upon a dead porcupine.”

The Boat | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast, 2009

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.

GALUMPH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 59 boards so far. 179 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 59 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
59
Boards found on
10
First board
142
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.

Built from these letters

GALUMPH
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GALUMPH starts with G and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AGHLMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GALUMP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GALUMPH?

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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