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SANS
Definition of SANS
preposition
Without; lacking; especially with regard to something expected or with precedent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English saunz, sans, borrowed from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine (“without”) conflated with absēns (“absent, remote”). Compare French sans, Italian senza, Portuguese sem, and Spanish sin.
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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.
SANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SANS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ANSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SANS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SANS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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