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GATEWAYS

8 letters

Definition of GATEWAYS

noun

plural of gateway

GATEWAY

noun

A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.

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Word DNA

GATEWAYS inherits its ancestry from its root, GATEWAY.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GATEWAY · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

GATEWAYS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 10 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
24
First board
156
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GATEWAYS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GATEWAYS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEGSTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GATEWA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GATEWAYS?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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