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SEDGE

/sɛd͡ʒ/5 letters

Definition of SEDGE

noun

Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SEDGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 26 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
26
First board
96
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

SEDGE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

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 SEDGE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEDGEDSEDGESSEDGELANDSEDGELANDS

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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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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