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BIVIUM
Definition of BIVIUM
noun
One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin bivium (“a place with two ways”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BIVIUM · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BIVIUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BIVIUM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BIIMUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found BIVIUM?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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