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VIGIL
Definition of VIGIL
noun
An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, VIGIL · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VIGIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 79 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VIGIL starts with V and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read GIILV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start VIGIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found VIGIL?
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