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GENTRIFY
Definition of GENTRIFY
verb
To renovate or improve something (especially housing or district), making it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
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Where it comes from
From gentry + -fy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GENTRIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GENTRIFY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFGINRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GENTRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found GENTRIFY?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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