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GORMIEST
Definition of GORMIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for GORMIEST itself. This is its base word, GORMY.
adjective
Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for GORMY.
Either:
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.
GORMIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GORMIEST starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGIMORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GORMIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found GORMIEST?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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