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SNOWBELT
Definition of SNOWBELT
noun
An area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From snow + belt. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “On the model of sunbelt?”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SNOWBELT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SNOWBELT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BELNOSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SNOWBE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SNOWBELT?
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 136 - and most players walked straight past it.
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