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SMATCH
Definition of SMATCH
noun
A smack or taste.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”), Norwegian smak (“a taste”), Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).
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.
SMATCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 86 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SMATCH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ACHMST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SMATCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found SMATCH?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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