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GAUFFERED

9 letters

Definition of GAUFFERED

verb

simple past and past participle of gauffer

GAUFFER

verb

To plait, crimp, or flute

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Word DNA

GAUFFERED inherits its ancestry from its root, GAUFFER.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.1%

of traced words share this origin (827)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, GAUFFER · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GAUFFERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 134
Its 2 boards, across 134 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
132
First board
134
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

ellenfremedonContributor

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAUFFERED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GAUFFERED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEFFGRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start GAUFFE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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