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VITRECTOMY

10 letters

Definition of VITRECTOMY

noun

The surgical removal of some or all of the vitreous humour from the eye.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From vitreous + -ectomy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

VITRECTOMY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

babayagahst

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VITRECTOMY
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

VITRECTOMY starts with V and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEIMORTTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start VITREC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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