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ASHET
Definition of ASHET
noun
A large, shallow, oval dish used for serving food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Scots form of French assiette. Doublet of assiette.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,111)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASHET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 104, 1 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ASHET starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEHST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ASHET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASHET?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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