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GOUACHE
Definition of GOUACHE
noun
A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French gouache, from Italian guazzo. Doublet of guazzo.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (548)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GOUACHE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOUACHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 230 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOUACHE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found GOUACHE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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