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GUNLAYER

8 letters

Definition of GUNLAYER

noun

Alternative form of gun-layer.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From gun + layer.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

GUNLAYER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 127
Its one board, across 127 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
72
First board
55
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.

Built from these letters

GUNLAYER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GUNLAY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GUNLAYER?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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