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GRATIFY
Definition of GRATIFY
verb
To please.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French gratifier, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRATIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 18, 7 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRATIFY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFGIRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GRATIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found GRATIFY?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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