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GAZEHOUND

/ˈɡeɪzhaʊnd/9 letters

Definition of GAZEHOUND

noun

Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).

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Where it comes from

From gaze (noun) + hound.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, GAZEHOUND · 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.

GAZEHOUND in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 3 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
107
First board
165
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

antsy

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GAZEHOUND starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEGHNOUZ - 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.

Words that start GAZEHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GAZEHOUND?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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