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VENTIFACT
Definition of VENTIFACT
noun
A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Blend of vent (“wind”) + artifact (“an object shaped or created by some process or agency”) from French vent from Latin ventus
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% 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.
VENTIFACT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VENTIFACT starts with V and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEFINTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start VENTIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VENTIFACT?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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