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GRAVELLY
Definition of GRAVELLY
adjective
Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gravelli (“covered with gravel or sand; (pathology) containing sand-like matter”), from gravel (“sand; grain of stand; gravel, pebbles; (pathology) sand-like matter in the urine, calculus”) + -lī (suffix forming adjectives). Gravel is derived from Old French gravel, gravele, gravelle (“gravel; (pathology) calculus”) (modern French gravelle (“(pathology) calculus”)), from grave (“coarse sand, gravel; seashore”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”); modern French grève (“riverbank; shore, strand”)) + -ele (diminutive suffix). The English word is analysable as gravel + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,066)
How it is built
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.
GRAVELLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAVELLY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEGLLRVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GRAVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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