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GOPHER
Definition of GOPHER
noun
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the analogy of holes in the ground to the indentations in a honeycomb or a waffle (doublet of waffle). Alternatively, from Muskogean.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOPHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GOPHER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGHOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GOPHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found GOPHER?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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