The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

VIGILANCE

/ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlɪns/9 letters

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).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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.

Day 1Day 95
Its 12 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
9
First board
91
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

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
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

VIGILANTVIGILANTEVIGILANCESVIGILANTESVIGILANTLYVIGILANTISMVIGILANTISMS

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.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share VIGILANCE