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VESICULA

8 letters

Definition of VESICULA

noun

Synonym of vesicle (small blister).

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin vēsīcula. By surface analysis, vesic- + -ula. Doublet of vesicle.

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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%

of traced words share this origin (9,478)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ulavesic-

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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.

VESICULA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its 6 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
25
First board
119
Latest board
66
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

VESICULA
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start VESICU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VESICULAEVESICULARVESICULATEVESICULOSEVESICULARLYVESICULATEDVESICULATESVESICULARITYVESICULATINGVESICULATIONVESICULATIONSVESICULARITIES

Could you have found VESICULA?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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