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SNEAP
Definition of SNEAP
verb
To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
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Where it comes from
The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SNEAP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SNEAP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AENPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SNEAP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found SNEAP?
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