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SARGASSOS

9 letters

Definition of SARGASSOS

noun

plural of sargasso

SARGASSO

noun

A brown alga, of the genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses.

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Word DNA

SARGASSOS inherits its ancestry from its root, SARGASSO.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Portuguese
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,132)

How it is built

nouncompound-astrum

Same root, SARGASSO · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names French, Spanish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SARGASSOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

markcc

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SARGASSOS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SARGASSOS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAGORSSSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and A appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SARGAS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SARGASSOS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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