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GORE
Definition of GORE
noun
Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, GORE · 8 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old Norse.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GORE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GORE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found GORE?
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