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GUAR
Definition of GUAR
noun
An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Hindi ग्वार (gvār), from Sanskrit गोपाली (gopālī, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from गोपालकर्कटी (gopālakarkaṭī, “cowherder's cucumber”), from गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd”) + कर्कटी (karkaṭī, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (747)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GUAR · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GUAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 130 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GUAR starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AGRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GUAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GUAR?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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