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GHASTNESS
Definition of GHASTNESS
noun
Amazement; terror; fright; fear.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gastnes, gastnesse, from gast, past participle of gasten (“to terrify”), equivalent to ghast + -ness.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,283)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GHASTNESS · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GHASTNESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GHASTNESS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGHNSSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GHASTN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GHASTNESS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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