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SALON
Definition of SALON
noun
A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SALON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SALON starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ALNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SALON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found SALON?
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