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SOMMELIER
Definition of SOMMELIER
noun
The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SOMMELIER · 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.
SOMMELIER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOMMELIER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEILMMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SOMMELIER?
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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