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GOPHERED

/ˈɡəʊfə/8 letters

Definition of GOPHERED

Wiktionary has no entry for GOPHERED itself. This is its base word, 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

The origin recorded for GOPHER.

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).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,168)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, GOPHER · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GOPHERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 22 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
37
First board
159
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

marie

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GOPHERED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GOPHERED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGHOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start GOPHER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GOPHERGOPHERSGOPHERINGGOPHERWOODGOPHERWOODS

Could you have found GOPHERED?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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