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GROMWELL
Definition of GROMWELL
noun
Various plants: Lithospermum arvense or other plants of the genus Lithospermum formerly used to treat kidney stones.
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Where it comes from
Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all probably from French grémil. Compare Welsh cromandi. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,122)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GROMWELL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.
Built from these letters
GROMWELL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EGLLMORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GROMWE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GROMWELL?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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