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SAPONITE
Definition of SAPONITE
noun
A trioctahedral smectite mineral.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Lars Fredrik Svanberg in 1840, from Latin sāpō (“soap”) + -ite.
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.
SAPONITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAPONITE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SAPONI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 49
Could you have found SAPONITE?
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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.
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