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WOLVERINE
Definition of WOLVERINE
noun
A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WOLVERINE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOLVERINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 230 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOLVERINE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEILNORVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start WOLVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found WOLVERINE?
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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