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VOETGANGER
Definition of VOETGANGER
noun
The crawling form of a locust, not yet able to fly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Afrikaans voetganger, from Dutch voetganger, from Middle Dutch voetganger.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
26th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (108)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VOETGANGER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VOETGANGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VOETGANGER starts with V and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEGGNORTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and G appear more than once.
Could you have found VOETGANGER?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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