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VOUCHSAFING

11 letters

Definition of VOUCHSAFING

noun

The act of one who vouchsafes something.

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Another sense

VOUCHSAFING carries a second meaning.

  1. verb

    Present participle of vouchsafe.

Word DNA

VOUCHSAFING inherits its ancestry from its root, VOUCHSAFE.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,799)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, VOUCHSAFE · 5 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

VOUCHSAFING in a sentence

“it behoveth us to thank God for that wherewith He hath favoured thee and us in vouchsafing us this blessed child of good omen, after despair and the cutting off of hope.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night, 2006

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.

VOUCHSAFING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 39 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
39
Boards found on
24
First board
156
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

VOUCHSAFING
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
11
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start VOUCHSA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VOUCHSAFEVOUCHSAFEDVOUCHSAFESVOUCHSAFEMENTVOUCHSAFEMENTS

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