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GREAVES
Definition of GREAVES
noun
The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Low German (compare German Low German Greev, Greve (“greaves”)), from Middle Low German grêve, from Old Saxon *griovo, from Proto-West Germanic *greubō (“roughage, brushwood, kindling”), perhaps related to *grubaz (“rough, coarse”), the root of German Griebe (“greaves, crackling”). Possibly related to gruff. Also compare Old High German grob (“coarse”) (modern German grob).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Low German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (353)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GREAVE · 3 relatives 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.
GREAVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 177 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GREAVES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEGRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found GREAVES?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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