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SAFFLOWER
Definition of SAFFLOWER
noun
A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French safleur; originally from Arabic أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”) but influenced by safran (“saffron”) and fleur (“flower”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (399)
branch · 1.9% 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.
SAFFLOWER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAFFLOWER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEFFLORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SAFFLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SAFFLOWER?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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