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GNAR

/nɑː(ɹ)/4 letters

Definition of GNAR

verb

To snarl or growl.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Old English gnyrran.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,890)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, GNAR · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

GNAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 45 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
45
Boards found on
28
First board
158
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GNAR
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GNAR starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AGNR - 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.

Words that start GNAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GNAR?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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