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VOLUNTARYISM

12 letters

Definition of VOLUNTARYISM

noun

Alternative form of voluntarism.

VOLUNTARISM

noun

A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

VOLUNTARYISM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 144
Its 10 boards, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
33
First board
130
Latest board
58
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

rachContributor

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VOLUNTARYISM
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
12
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start VOLUNTAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VOLUNTARYVOLUNTARIESVOLUNTARILYVOLUNTARISMVOLUNTARISTVOLUNTARISMSVOLUNTARISTSVOLUNTARYISTVOLUNTARINESSVOLUNTARISTICVOLUNTARYISMSVOLUNTARYISTS

Could you have found VOLUNTARYISM?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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