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GEBUR
Definition of GEBUR
noun
In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Old English ġebūr (“dweller, husbandman, farmer, countryman, boor”), from Proto-West Germanic *gabūr, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *būraz (“house, room, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, wax, grow”). More at bower, boor.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, GEBUR · 1 relative in the game
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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.
GEBUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 93 days.
Built from these letters
GEBUR starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BEGRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GEBUR?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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