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GRAVE
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).
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 (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, GRAVE · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
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.
GRAVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GRAVE?
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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