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VORACITY

/vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/8 letters

Definition of VORACITY

noun

The state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.

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Other senses

VORACITY carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    The character of being voracious; greediness of appetite; voraciousness.

  2. noun

    Synonyms Avidity, ravenousness. See rapacious.

  3. noun

    The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

  4. noun

    extreme gluttony

Where it comes from

First attested in 1526 from Middle French voracité, from Latin vorācitās (whence -acity), from vorāx.

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,912)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllables-acity

Same root, VORACITY · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

VORACITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 237 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 56 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
56
Boards found on
9
First board
150
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

sock

on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VORACITY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of VORACITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

ACQUISITIVENESSAVARICEAVARICIOUSNESSAVIDITYAVIDNESSCOVETOUSNESSCRAPULENCECRAPULENCY

Words that start VORACI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VORACIOUSVORACITIESVORACIOUSLYVORACIOUSNESSVORACIOUSNESSES

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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