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VIRTUALISE

10 letters

Definition of VIRTUALISE

verb

Alternative spelling of virtualize.

VIRTUALIZE

verb

To run a program in virtual storage.

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Word DNA

VIRTUALISE inherits its ancestry from its root, VIRTUAL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. Proto-Indo-European
  3. Latin
  4. Old French
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (852)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, VIRTUAL · 8 relatives in the game

Every Middle French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

VIRTUALISE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 6 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
95
First board
139
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

belastria

on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VIRTUALISE
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VIRTUALISE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIILRSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start VIRTUA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VIRTUALISE?

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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.

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