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SERMON
Definition of SERMON
noun
Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SERMON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SERMON starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EMNORS - 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 SERMON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found SERMON?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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