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GENTRIFY

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.faɪ/8 letters

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).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GENTRIFY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 32 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
19
First board
96
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

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
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

GENTRICEGENTRIESGENTRICESGENTRIFIEDGENTRIFIERGENTRIFIESGENTRIFIERSGENTRIFYINGGENTRIFICATIONGENTRIFICATIONS

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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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