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GASPEREAU
Definition of GASPEREAU
noun
An alewife (type of fish).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French gaspereau, a variant of gaspareau.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,062)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GASPEREAU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 134, 1 October 2026.
Built from these letters
GASPEREAU starts with G and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AAEEGPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
Words that start GASPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GASPEREAU?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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