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GRAVLAX
Definition of GRAVLAX
noun
Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
GRAVLAX carries a second meaning.
noun
Raw, thinly sliced, cured salmon seasoned with dill and served usually as an appetizer.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Swedish gravlax, a compound of grava (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + lax (“salmon”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Swedish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (266)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRAVLAX · 1 relative in the game
GRAVLAX in a sentence
“Elisabeth, yes, gravlax is a mighty good Scandinavian dish.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRAVLAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 168 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAVLAX starts with G and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read AAGLRVX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found GRAVLAX?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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