The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GRAVURE
Definition of GRAVURE
noun
A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Short for rotogravure.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GRAVURE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRAVURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAVURE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGRRUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found GRAVURE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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