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GREWSOME

8 letters

Definition of GREWSOME

adjective

Obsolete spelling of gruesome.

GRUESOME

adjective

Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

GREWSOME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 10 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
62
First board
150
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

lickorice

on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GREWSOME
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GREWSO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GREWSOMERGREWSOMEST

Could you have found GREWSOME?

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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.

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