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VASTITY
Definition of VASTITY
noun
Emptiness or desolation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From vast + -ity, from Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas. Compare Middle English wastite.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VASTITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VASTITY starts with V and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AISTTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start VASTIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VASTITY?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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