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GASTRONOME
Definition of GASTRONOME
noun
a lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French gastronome.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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 (2,118)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GASTRONOME · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GASTRONOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GASTRONOME starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGMNOORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start GASTRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found GASTRONOME?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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