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VIXEN
Definition of VIXEN
noun
A female fox.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VIXEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 205 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VIXEN starts with V and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EINVX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start VIXEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found VIXEN?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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