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VOUGE

/vuʒ/5 letters

Definition of VOUGE

noun

Alternative form of voulge.

VOULGE

noun

A medieval poleaxe bearing resemblance to a glaive or a Lochaber ax, although the blade portion is somewhat more elongated.

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Other senses

VOUGE carries 2 further meanings.

  1. noun

    Same as voulge.

  2. noun

    a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century

Word DNA

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, VOUGE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

VOUGE in a sentence

“You know … I hear diagnoses of sluggishly progressive schizophrenia are in vouge again.”

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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.

VOUGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 47 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
47
Boards found on
7
First board
147
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start VOUGE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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