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GUGAS

5 letters

Definition of GUGAS

noun

plural of guga

GUGA

noun

solan goose or northern gannet

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Word DNA

GUGAS inherits its ancestry from its root, GUGA.

Line of descent

  1. Scottish Gaelic
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Scottish Gaelic

Deepest traced root

38th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (50)

Celtic

branch · 0.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, GUGA · 1 relative in the game

Every Scottish Gaelic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GUGAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its one board, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

cancross

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GUGAS
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GUGAS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGGSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.

Could you have found GUGAS?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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