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VISCACHA
Definition of VISCACHA
noun
Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish vizcacha, from Quechua wisk'acha.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
46th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (53)
branch · 0.1% 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.
VISCACHA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.
Built from these letters
VISCACHA starts with V and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACCHISV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and A appear more than once.
Words that start VISCAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VISCACHA?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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