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SLEET
Definition of SLEET
noun
Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
36th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (134)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SLEET · 5 relatives 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.
SLEET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SLEET starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EELST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLEET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found SLEET?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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