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VESICAL

/ˈvɛsɪkəl/7 letters

Definition of VESICAL

adjective

Pertaining to the urinary bladder.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin vesica (“bladder”). By surface analysis, vesic- + -al.

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.

VESICAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 96
Its 6 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
47
First board
80
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 80, 8 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

sleepyhyphae

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VESICAL
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

VESICAL starts with V and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEILSV - 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.

VESICAVESICAEVESICANTVESICATEVESICANTSVESICATEDVESICATESVESICATINGVESICATIONVESICATORYVESICATIONS

Could you have found VESICAL?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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