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QUAVER
Definition of QUAVER
noun
A trembling shake.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
QUAVER carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To quiver, as from weakness; tremble.
intransitive verb
To speak in a quivering voice; utter a quivering sound.
intransitive verb
To produce a trill on an instrument or with the voice.
intransitive verb
To utter or sing in a trilling voice.
Where it comes from
From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave + -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,287)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUAVER · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names German.
QUAVER in a sentence
“The English term for eighth-notes gets it right with "quaver", since these and other notes can do exactly that when played with alternating intensity, and even, suggests Quantz, duration.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 242 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUAVER starts with Q and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEQRUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of QUAVER. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start QUAVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUAVER?
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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