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SOMBRE
Definition of SOMBRE
adjective
Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOMBRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SOMBRE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SOMBRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found SOMBRE?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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