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GUNMETALS

9 letters

Definition of GUNMETALS

noun

plural of gunmetal.

GUNMETAL

noun

A type of bronze used for making cannons.

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Word DNA

GUNMETALS inherits its ancestry from its root, GUNMETAL.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GUNMETAL · 1 relative in the game

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.

GUNMETALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 24 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
9
First board
162
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

GUNMETALS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GUNMET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GUNMETALS?

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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.

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