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GRASP

/ɡɹɑːsp/5 letters

Definition of GRASP

verb

To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab. Cognate with Saterland Frisian grapsje (“to grab, grasp”), German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

GRASP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 27 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
8
First board
106
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

GRASP
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GRASP starts with G and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AGPRS - 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.

Words that start GRASP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GRASPSGRASPEDGRASPERGRASPERSGRASPINGGRASPABLEGRASPLESSGRASPINGLYGRASPINGNESSGRASPINGNESSES

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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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