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SALET

5 letters

Definition of SALET

noun

Alternative form of sallet (“helmet”).

SALLET

noun

A type of light spherical combat helmet used in the 15th century.

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Word DNA

SALET inherits its ancestry from its root, SALLET.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Spanish
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,817)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SALLET · 1 relative in the game

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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.

SALET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 24 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
35
First board
160
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

tusk

on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

SALET starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AELST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

11 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SALET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SALETS

Could you have found SALET?

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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.

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