The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
VESPER
Definition of VESPER
noun
The bell that summons worshippers to vespers; the vesper-bell.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French vespre, from Latin vesper (“evening star”). The martini name was coined by English novelist Ian Fleming in 1953 in his novel Casino Royale, where fictional secret agent James Bond concocts the recipe and names it after the character Vesper Lynd.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,378)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VESPER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VESPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 68 boards so far. 324 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
VESPER starts with V and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEPRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start VESPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found VESPER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER