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GOUT
Definition of GOUT
noun
An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta. The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GOUT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names 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.
GOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 93 boards so far. 329 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GOUT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read GOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GOUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
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