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GRAME
Definition of GRAME
noun
Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRAME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GRAME starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GRAME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found GRAME?
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