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SATURNISM

9 letters

Definition of SATURNISM

noun

lead poisoning

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Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English saturne (“lead”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,183)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

SATURNISM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its one board, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
54
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

SATURNISM
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SATURNISM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AIMNRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SATURN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SATURNALSATURNICSATURNIIDSATURNINESATURNISTSATURNALIASATURNIIDSSATURNISMSSATURNISTSSATURNALIANSATURNALIASSATURNINELY

Could you have found SATURNISM?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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