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VOUGE
Definition of VOUGE
noun
Alternative form of 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.
noun
Same as voulge.
noun
a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century
Word DNA
VOUGE inherits its ancestry from its root, VOULGE.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VOULGE · 3 relatives in the game
VOUGE in a sentence
“You know … I hear diagnoses of sluggishly progressive schizophrenia are in vouge again.”
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 50 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found VOUGE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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