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SERAPHIMS
Definition of SERAPHIMS
noun
plural of seraph
noun
A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
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Word DNA
SERAPHIMS inherits its ancestry from its root, SERAPHIM.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
18th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (159)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SERAPHIM · 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.
SERAPHIMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SERAPHIMS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHIMPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SERAPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SERAPHIMS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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