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SEAS

/siːz/4 letters

Definition of SEAS

noun

plural of sea

SEA

noun

A large body of salt water.

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Word DNA

SEAS inherits its ancestry from its root, SEA.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.8%

of traced words share this origin (4,064)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, SEA · 13 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SEAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

prodigalsanyo

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SEAS
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SEAS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEASESEASEDSEASESSEASONSEASICKSEASIDESEASINGSEASONSSEASURESEASCAPESEASCOUTSEASHELL

Could you have found SEAS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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