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SOLUMS

6 letters

Definition of SOLUMS

noun

plural of solum

SOLUM

noun

Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes; the upper layers of a soil profile that are affected by climate.

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Word DNA

SOLUMS inherits its ancestry from its root, SOLUM.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,695)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SOLUM · 1 relative in the game

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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.

SOLUMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its one board, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

sergeman

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SOLUMS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found SOLUMS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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