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WIVER

5 letters

Definition of WIVER

noun

Obsolete form of wyvern.

WYVERN

noun

A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English wyver.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,235)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, WIVER · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · 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.

WIVER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 33 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
33
Boards found on
19
First board
147
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

sturbledon

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

WIVER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIRVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WIVER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WIVER?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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