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VERNALITY

9 letters

Definition of VERNALITY

noun

The quality of being vernal or spring-like.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From vernal + -ity, from Latin vernalis (“pertainig to spring”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,696)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ity

Same root, VERNALITY · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

VERNALITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 21 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
19
First board
142
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

VERNALITY
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start VERNAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VERNALVERNALLYVERNALISEVERNALIZEVERNALISEDVERNALISESVERNALIZEDVERNALIZESVERNALISINGVERNALITIESVERNALIZINGVERNALIZATION

Could you have found VERNALITY?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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