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SIMMER
Definition of SIMMER
verb
To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen (“to simmer”), of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb. First attested in the late 15 century.
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.
SIMMER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SIMMER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIMMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SIMMER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SIMMER?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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