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SOPHY
Definition of SOPHY
noun
wisdom, knowledge, learning
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Middle English sophie, from the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophĭ́ā, “high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom”); compare Sophia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,724)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SOPHY · 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.
SOPHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOPHY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HOPSY - 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.
Could you have found SOPHY?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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