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VIRGATE
Definition of VIRGATE
noun
The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ⁄4 of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin virgāta, "yard" compared to "virga" as a measuring rod. Doublet of vergée.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VIRGATE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VIRGATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VIRGATE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGIRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found VIRGATE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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