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VELVET
Definition of VELVET
noun
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,667)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VELVET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VELVET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
VELVET starts with V and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EELTVV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. V and E appear more than once.
Words that start VELVET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VELVET?
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