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SIMONY
Definition of SIMONY
noun
The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English simonie, symonye, from Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named after Simon Magus (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Šimʻôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18–20.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (540)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SIMONY · 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.
SIMONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SIMONY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IMNOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found SIMONY?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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