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GREYLAG
Definition of GREYLAG
noun
A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GREYLAG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GREYLAG starts with G and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGGLRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Words that start GREYLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GREYLAG?
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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