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SEMI

/ˈsɛmi/4 letters

Definition of SEMI

noun

A semi-detached house.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SEMI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
113
First board
120
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

cocopops

on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SEMI
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SEMI starts with S and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read EIMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 SEMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SEMI?

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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.

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