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SEIDEL
Definition of SEIDEL
noun
A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Seidel (“beer mug or a serving of beer of about a third of a liter”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (923)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SEIDEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SEIDEL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read DEEILS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SEIDEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SEIDEL?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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