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SOILURE
Definition of SOILURE
noun
Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French soilleure, from soillier (“to soil”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (836)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
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.
SOILURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOILURE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EILORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SOILUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SOILURE?
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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.
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