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VIVES
Definition of VIVES
noun
A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French vives, French avives (compare Spanish abivas), from Arabic ذِئْبَة (ḏiʔba, literally “she-wolf”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (375)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VIVE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VIVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VIVES starts with V and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EISVV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. V appears more than once.
Could you have found VIVES?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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