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GREY
Definition of GREY
adjective
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GREY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 2, 23 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GREY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GREY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found GREY?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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