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SPIVS

5 letters

Definition of SPIVS

noun

plural of spiv

SPIV

noun

A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods, especially during World War II.

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Word DNA

SPIVS inherits its ancestry from its root, SPIV.

How it is built

noun

Same root, SPIV · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

SPIVS 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

amateur

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

Built from these letters

SPIVS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found SPIVS?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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