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GATE
Definition of GATE
noun
A doorlike structure outside a house.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GATE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGT - 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 GATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GATE?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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