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VICTUAL
Definition of VICTUAL
noun
Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
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Other senses
VICTUAL carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Food fit for human consumption.
noun
Food supplies; provisions.
intransitive verb
To provide with food.
intransitive verb
To lay in food supplies.
Where it comes from
From Middle English vitaile, vitaylle (“food; food and drink, especially as needed for sustenance; (usually in the plural) food and drink stores or supplies; rations; provision of food and drink as a military stipend; crops”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitaile, vitaille [and other forms] and Old French vitaile, vitaille, victaille (“food, provisions, victuals”) [and other forms] (modern French victuaille), from Late Latin vīctuālia, the neuter plural of vīctuālis (“nutritional”), from Latin vīctus (“that which sustains life, diet, nourishment, provision”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Vīctus is derived from vīvō (“to live; to be alive, survive; to reside in”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). The spelling of the modern English and French words has been influenced by Late Latin vīctuālia, though the pronunciation of the Middle English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle French words has been retained.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (334)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VICTUAL · 4 relatives in the game
VICTUAL in a sentence
“Now we had picked up on the beach some small matter of victual from the wreck and husbanded it carefully, eating but once every day or two, in our fear lest it should fail us and we die miserably of famine or affright.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VICTUAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 201 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VICTUAL starts with V and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACILTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of VICTUAL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start VICTUA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found VICTUAL?
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