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GRAVELS
Definition of GRAVELS
noun
plural 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
GRAVELS inherits its ancestry from its root, GRAVEL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, GRAVEL · 7 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.
GRAVELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAVELS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGLRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GRAVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GRAVELS?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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