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GAMINES
Definition of GAMINES
noun
plural of gamine
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Another sense
GAMINES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of gamine.
Word DNA
GAMINES inherits its ancestry from its root, GAMIN.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,111)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GAMIN · 2 relatives in the game
GAMINES in a sentence
“Bedraggled street urchins and drug addicts known as gamines roamed the area.”
Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left?, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GAMINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 145 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GAMINES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGIMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GAMINE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found GAMINES?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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