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VICE
Definition of VICE
noun
Bad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.
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.
VICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
VICE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIV - 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 VICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found VICE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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