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VETCH
Definition of VETCH
noun
Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VETCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VETCH starts with V and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read CEHTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start VETCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found VETCH?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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