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QIVIUT

/ˈkɪv.i.ət/6 letters

Definition of QIVIUT

noun

The underwool of the Arctic muskox, used as a fibre.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᕿᕕᐅᖅ, ᕿᕕᐅᑦ (qifioq, qifiot, “underwool”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

QIVIUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 7 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
23
First board
96
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

travelgirl

on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

QIVIUT
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

QIVIUT starts with Q and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IIQTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start QIVIUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found QIVIUT?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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