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SABRE
Definition of SABRE
noun
A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SABRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 18, 7 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SABRE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABERS - 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 SABRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found SABRE?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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