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VINEGARY

8 letters

Definition of VINEGARY

adjective

Sour; like vinegar.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From vinegar + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, VINEGAR · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

VINEGARY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 22 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
56
First board
161
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

thedormouse

on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VINEGARY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

VINEGARY starts with V and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEGINRVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start VINEGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VINEGARVINEGARSVINEGAREDVINEGARINGVINEGARISHVINEGAROONVINEGARETTEVINEGARROON

Could you have found VINEGARY?

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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.

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