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SARPANCH
Definition of SARPANCH
noun
The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindi सरपंच (sarpañc), from Hindi सर (sar, “head”) / Urdu سر (sar, “head; chief”) (from Persian سر (sar, “head; chief, leader”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head; top”)) + Hindi पंच (pañc, “five (number of people in a panchayat council)”) / Urdu پنچ (pañc); from Sanskrit पञ्च (pañca, “five”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).
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.
SARPANCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SARPANCH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AACHNPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SARPAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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