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GECKOES

7 letters

Definition of GECKOES

noun

plural of gecko

GECKO

noun

Any lizard in the infraorder Gekkota.

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Word DNA

GECKOES inherits its ancestry from its root, GECKO.

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. Dutch
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (231)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, GECKO · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

GECKOES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 9 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
87
First board
156
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 87, 15 August 2026.

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Built from these letters

GECKOES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GECKOES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEGKOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Could you have found GECKOES?

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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.

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