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SNIES

5 letters

Definition of SNIES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sny

SNY

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Saniyo-Hiyewe.

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Word DNA

SNIES inherits its ancestry from its root, SNY.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Danish
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

16th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.7%

of traced words share this origin (209)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, SNY · 1 relative in the game

SNY

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SNIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its one board, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
58
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 58 days.

First ever to find it

windingroad

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SNIES
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SNIES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EINSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found SNIES?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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