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SNED
Definition of SNED
noun
A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English snid (attested only in the sense of saw and slaughter), from Old English snid, snide (“a cut, incision; cutting implement, saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *snidi; merging with Middle English snede (“a morsel, bite; scythe”), from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, morsel, bit; scythe handle”).
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.
SNED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 44, 3 July 2026.
Built from these letters
SNED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DENS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SNED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found SNED?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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