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GORED

/ɡɔɹd/5 letters

Definition of GORED

verb

simple past and past participle of gore

GORE

noun

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

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Word DNA

GORED inherits its ancestry from its root, GORE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,636)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, GORE · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old Norse.

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Rarity score
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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.

GORED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 28 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
8
First board
150
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 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

GORED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GORED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found GORED?

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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