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GARNISHED

/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃt/9 letters

Definition of GARNISHED

adjective

Decorated with garnish.

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Word DNA

GARNISHED inherits its ancestry from its root, GARNISH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Old French
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,554)

How it is built

adjective2 syllables

Same root, GARNISH · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

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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.

GARNISHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 124 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 47 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
47
Boards found on
33
First board
161
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GARNISHED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GARNIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GARNISHGARNISHEEGARNISHERGARNISHESGARNISHRYGARNISHEEDGARNISHEESGARNISHERSGARNISHINGGARNISHINGSGARNISHMENTGARNISHRIES

Could you have found GARNISHED?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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