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SORBET
Definition of SORBET
noun
Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba). Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
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.
SORBET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SORBET starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEORST - 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.
Words that start SORBET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SORBET?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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