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SOPRANINO
Definition of SOPRANINO
noun
a musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class
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Where it comes from
From Italian soprano + -ino (diminutive).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2%
of traced words share this origin (576)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOPRANINO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOPRANINO starts with S and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AINNOOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once.
Words that start SOPRAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SOPRANINO?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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