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QUIM

/kwɪm/4 letters

Definition of QUIM

noun

The female genitalia; the vulva.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

QUIM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 270 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 96
Its 11 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
12
First board
96
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

maddy

on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

QUIM
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

QUIM starts with Q and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read IMQU - 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 start QUIM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found QUIM?

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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.

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