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SELE
Definition of SELE
noun
Happiness, fortune.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English sel (“fortune, bliss; a unit of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (970)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SELE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SELE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 57, 16 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SELE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EELS - 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 SELE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 57
Could you have found SELE?
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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.
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