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GREAVING

8 letters

Definition of GREAVING

verb

present participle and gerund of greave

GREAVE

noun

A bush; a tree; a grove.

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Word DNA

GREAVING inherits its ancestry from its root, GREAVE.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,054)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, GREAVE · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old Norse, Proto-Germanic, Scots.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GREAVING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
161
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

beefystew

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GREAVING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GREAVING starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGGINRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.

Could you have found GREAVING?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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