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SAXOPHONE
Definition of SAXOPHONE
noun
A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- Ancient Greek
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,714)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SAXOPHONE · 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.
SAXOPHONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 555 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SAXOPHONE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHNOOPSX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SAXOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found SAXOPHONE?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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