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GULCHES

/ˈɡʌlt͡ʃɪz/7 letters

Definition of GULCHES

noun

plural of gulch

GULCH

verb

To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

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Word DNA

GULCHES inherits its ancestry from its root, GULCH.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,235)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, GULCH · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GULCHES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 42 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
42
Boards found on
20
First board
148
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GULCHES
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GULCHES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEGHLSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 GULCHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GULCHES?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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