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VESICA
Definition of VESICA
noun
A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% 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.
VESICA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VESICA starts with V and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACEISV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start VESICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found VESICA?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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