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SEDIMENTS

9 letters

Definition of SEDIMENTS

noun

plural of sediment

SEDIMENT

noun

A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

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Word DNA

SEDIMENTS inherits its ancestry from its root, SEDIMENT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,981)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SEDIMENT · 5 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

SEDIMENTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its one board, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
68
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 68 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

SEDIMENTS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SEDIME

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEDIMENTSEDIMENTALSEDIMENTEDSEDIMENTARYSEDIMENTINGSEDIMENTOUSSEDIMENTABLESEDIMENTATIONSEDIMENTOLOGYSEDIMENTATIONSSEDIMENTOLOGICSEDIMENTOLOGIES

Could you have found SEDIMENTS?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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