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GUSHIER

7 letters

Definition of GUSHIER

adjective

comparative form of gushy: more gushy

GUSHY

adjective

Gushing; effusive and often emotional.

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Word DNA

GUSHIER inherits its ancestry from its root, GUSH.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Middle Dutch
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (814)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, GUSH · 9 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German, Old English.

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

GUSHIER in a sentence

“No reference book sells more copies or draws gushier superlatives Timeless!”

2010 May « Exile on Ninth Street, 2010

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.

GUSHIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 32 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
30
First board
162
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mtudor1497

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GUSHIER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GUSHIER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGHIRSU - 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 GUSHIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GUSHIER?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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