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GOURMET
Definition of GOURMET
adjective
Fine; of superior quality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,881)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GOURMET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Catalan, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOURMET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 73 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOURMET starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGMORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found GOURMET?
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