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GREWS
Definition of GREWS
Wiktionary has no entry for GREWS itself. This is its base word, GREW.
verb
simple past of grow
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for GREW.
From Middle English grew, from Old English grēow (first and third person past tense of grōwan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grerō, from Proto-Germanic *gegrō (first and third person past tense of *grōaną), reduplication of *grōaną.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GREWS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GREWS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GREWS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GREWS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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