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SAMPLE
Definition of SAMPLE
noun
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.
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.
SAMPLE 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 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAMPLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AELMPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SAMPLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found SAMPLE?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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