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VERB

/vɜːb/4 letters

Definition of VERB

noun

A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

VERB in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 118
Its 4 boards, across 118 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
26
First board
107
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

chocolate08

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VERB
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

VERB starts with V and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BERV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start VERB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VERB?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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