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VERVAINS

8 letters

Definition of VERVAINS

noun

plural of vervain

VERVAIN

noun

Any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena especially if used for medicinal purposes, primarily Verbena officinalis, common in Europe and formerly held to have medicinal properties.

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Word DNA

VERVAINS inherits its ancestry from its root, VERVAIN.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,639)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, VERVAIN · 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.

VERVAINS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 132
Its one board, across 132 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

rogue

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VERVAINS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VERVAINS starts with V and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEINRSVV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. V appears more than once.

Words that start VERVAI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VERVAINS?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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