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GETAS

5 letters

Definition of GETAS

noun

plural of geta

GETA

noun

A Japanese raised wooden clog, worn with traditional Japanese garments such as the kimono.

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Word DNA

GETAS inherits its ancestry from its root, GETA.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (297)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, GETA · 1 relative 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.

GETAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 5 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
72
First board
152
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 93, 21 August 2026.

Built from these letters

GETAS
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GETAS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found GETAS?

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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