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VOLTAISM

8 letters

Definition of VOLTAISM

noun

galvanism

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Volta + -ism, after Alessandro Volta.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ism

Same root, VOLTA · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

VOLTAISM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 9 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
48
First board
156
Latest board
46
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

errant_octopus

on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

VOLTAISM
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VOLTAISM starts with V and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AILMOSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start VOLTAI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VOLTAICVOLTAISMS

Could you have found VOLTAISM?

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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.

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