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VIGILANCE
Definition of VIGILANCE
noun
Alert watchfulness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia.
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.
VIGILANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
VIGILANCE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGIILNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start VIGILA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VIGILANCE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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