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GAUCHE
Definition of GAUCHE
adjective
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish *walkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,718)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GAUCHE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GAUCHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 96 boards so far. 529 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GAUCHE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 GAUCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GAUCHE?
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