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SECTARY
Definition of SECTARY
noun
A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Either from the French sectaire or directly from its etymon, the Medieval Latin sectārius, from secta (“sect”). Cognates include the Italian settario and the Portuguese and Spanish sectario.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SECTARY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SECTARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SECTARY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACERSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SECTAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SECTARY?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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