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SENNIGHT
Definition of SENNIGHT
noun
Synonym of week in its various senses, a period of seven consecutive days and nights.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English senight, senyght, sinight (“sevennight, a week”) [and other forms], a shortened form of seven-night, sevenight, sevenyght [and other forms], from Late Old English seofeniht (compare seofonnihte (“seven days old; seven days long”, adjective)), from seofon (“seven”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”)) + niht (“night; day (when computing spans of time)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”)). Doublet of sevennight.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,431)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SENNIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SENNIGHT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGHINNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SENNIG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SENNIGHT?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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