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OGIVES

6 letters

Definition of OGIVES

noun

plural of ogive

OGIVE

noun

The curve of a cumulative distribution function.

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Word DNA

OGIVES inherits its ancestry from its root, OGIVE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,286)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, OGIVE · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

OGIVES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 19 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
56
First board
157
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 56, 15 July 2026.

Built from these letters

OGIVES
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OGIVES starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGIOSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found OGIVES?

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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.

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