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LAVISH
Definition of LAVISH
adjective
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (836)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LAVISH · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAVISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 108 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LAVISH starts with L and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AHILSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LAVISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found LAVISH?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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