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AVALANCHE
Definition of AVALANCHE
noun
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
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Where it comes from
From French avalanche, from Franco-Provençal (Savoy) avalançhe, blend of aval (“downhill”) and standard lavençhe, from Vulgar Latin *labanka (compare Occitan lavanca, Italian valanga), of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of Late Latin lābīna (“landslide”) (compare Franco-Provençal (Dauphiné) lavino, Romansh lavina), from Latin lābēs, from lābor (“to slip, slide”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,276)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AVALANCHE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AVALANCHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AVALANCHE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAACEHLNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AVALAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AVALANCHE?
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