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AQUIVER

/əˈkwɪvə/7 letters

Definition of AQUIVER

adjective

In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.

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Another sense

AQUIVER carries a second meaning.

  1. adjective

    Marked by quivering.

    “The children were aquiver with anticipation before the circus parade.”

Where it comes from

From a- + quiver.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound

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AQUIVER in a sentence

“He was aquiver with the idea that he had glimpsed an animating force—“the secret of life.””

SuperCooperators, 2011

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

AQUIVER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 9 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
59
First board
150
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

colibri14

on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

AQUIVER
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AQUIVER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEIQRUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found AQUIVER?

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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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