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SAVVY
Definition of SAVVY
adjective
Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Portuguese
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,673)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SAVVY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SAVVY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAVVY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ASVVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. V appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SAVVY?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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