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GAMEY

/ˈɡeɪmi/5 letters

Definition of GAMEY

adjective

Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From game + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GAMEY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 108
Its 16 boards, across 108 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
20
First board
108
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

maddy

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start GAMEY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GAMEYNESSGAMEYNESSES

Could you have found GAMEY?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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