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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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,213)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SLIVER · 2 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.
SLIVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
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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