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GROVELED
Definition of GROVELED
verb
simple past of grovel
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Word DNA
GROVELED inherits its ancestry from its root, GROVEL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Same root, GROVEL · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Norwegian, Scots.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
GROVELED in a sentence
“Appearing as messengers and propagandists for bourgeois ideology, the rootless-cosmopolitans fawned over and groveled before decadent bourgeois culture.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GROVELED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 138 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROVELED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGLORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 GROVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found GROVELED?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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