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GAVAGES

7 letters

Definition of GAVAGES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gavage

GAVAGE

noun

A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras

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Word DNA

GAVAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, GAVAGE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,521)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, GAVAGE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

GAVAGES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its 2 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
138
First board
173
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

cuteus

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAVAGES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GAVAGE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GAVAGES?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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