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SEPIA

/ˈsiːpiə/5 letters

Definition of SEPIA

noun

A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Cognate with Italian seppia, Portuguese siba, and Spanish sepia.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SEPIA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 124 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 35 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
25
First board
106
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

lilj

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SEPIA
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SEPIA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEIPS - 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 SEPIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEPIAS

Could you have found SEPIA?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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