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GRAVELED
Definition of GRAVELED
verb
simple past and past participle of gravel
noun
Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
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Word DNA
GRAVELED inherits its ancestry from its root, GRAVEL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Same root, GRAVEL · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English, Welsh.
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.
GRAVELED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAVELED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEGLRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start GRAVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found GRAVELED?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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