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SHARP
Definition of SHARP
adjective
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scherp, scharp, schaarp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
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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.
SHARP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SHARP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AHPRS - 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 SHARP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SHARP?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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