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SAVANT
Definition of SAVANT
noun
A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
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.
SAVANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SAVANT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AANSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SAVANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SAVANT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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