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SNAKES
Definition of SNAKES
noun
plural of snake
noun
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
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Word DNA
SNAKES inherits its ancestry from its root, SNAKE.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,159)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SNAKE · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Proto-Germanic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SNAKES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 172, 8 November 2026.
Built from these letters
SNAKES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEKNSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SNAKES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SNAKES?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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