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SAPPER
Definition of SAPPER
noun
A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French sappeur (French sapeur). By surface analysis, sap + -er.
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.
SAPPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAPPER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEPPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 SAPPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SAPPER?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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