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GRAVE

/ɡɹeɪv/5 letters

Definition of GRAVE

noun

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

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.

GRAVE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 22 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
8
First board
109
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

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

Built from these letters

GRAVE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GRAVE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GRAVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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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