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SLIVER
Definition of SLIVER
noun
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
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.
SLIVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SLIVER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EILRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SLIVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SLIVER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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