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VANDALISM
Definition of VANDALISM
noun
Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,600)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VANDALISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
VANDALISM starts with V and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AADILMNSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start VANDAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found VANDALISM?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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