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SAPS
Definition of SAPS
noun
plural of sap
SAP
noun
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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Word DNA
SAPS inherits its ancestry from its root, SAP.
Line of descent
8 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (791)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SAP · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SAPS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 172, 8 November 2026.
Built from these letters
SAPS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read APSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
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 SAPS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SAPS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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