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GOURD
Definition of GOURD
noun
Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of cucurbit.
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.
GOURD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 102 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOURD starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DGORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GOURD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GOURD?
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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