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VINAIGRETTE
Definition of VINAIGRETTE
noun
A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French vinaigrette. Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan from Russian винегре́т (vinegrét), whence also the doublet vinegret.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
20th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (362)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VINAIGRETTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VINAIGRETTE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEGIINRTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, E and T appear more than once, including a double letter.
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 VINAIGR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VINAIGRETTE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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