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VOLE
Definition of VOLE
noun
Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
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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.
VOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 148 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VOLE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ELOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start VOLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found VOLE?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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