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GAUZY

5 letters

Definition of GAUZY

adjective

Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From gauze + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GAUZY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 6 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
21
First board
107
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

nameisnone

on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAUZY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GAUZY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGUYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found GAUZY?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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