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GOUTY

/ˈɡaʊti/5 letters

Definition of GOUTY

adjective

Suffering from gout.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,275)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GOUTY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 153 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 48 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
48
Boards found on
20
First board
147
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

ggobliv

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GOUTY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GOUTY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read GOTUY - 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.

Could you have found GOUTY?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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