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SHERBET
Definition of SHERBET
noun
A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba). Doublet of sorbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
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.
SHERBET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 59 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHERBET starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEEHRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 SHERBE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SHERBET?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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