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SOLITAIRE
Definition of SOLITAIRE
noun
A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SOLITAIRE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOLITAIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOLITAIRE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIILORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SOLITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found SOLITAIRE?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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