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SEBUM
Definition of SEBUM
noun
A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease; suet”).
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.
SEBUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 156 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SEBUM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read BEMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SEBUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SEBUM?
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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