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GNOMISH
Definition of GNOMISH
adjective
Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
GNOMISH carries 3 further meanings.
Gnome-like: as, gnomish faces.
adjective
aphoristic
adjective
used of small deformed creatures
Where it comes from
From gnome + -ish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
GNOMISH in a sentence
“Help Alisa and Rudy, a magician and a gnomish builder, rebuild their destroyed world from the ground up!”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GNOMISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 227 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GNOMISH starts with G and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read GHIMNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GNOMISH?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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