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SCURVIEST

9 letters

Definition of SCURVIEST

adjective

superlative form of scurvy: most scurvy

SCURVY

adjective

Affected or covered with scurf (“skin disease causing flakes of skin to fall off”) or scabs; scurfy, scabby; also, of or relating to a skin disease causing scurf or to scurvy (noun sense 1).

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Word DNA

SCURVIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, SCURVY.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,153)

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, SCURVY · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, French, Middle Low German.

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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.

SCURVIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

crunkier

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCURVIEST
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SCURVIEST starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIRSSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start SCURVI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SCURVIERSCURVIESSCURVILYSCURVINESSSCURVINESSES

Could you have found SCURVIEST?

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