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SORTANCE
Definition of SORTANCE
noun
fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sort (verb).
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.
SORTANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SORTANCE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACENORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SORTAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SORTANCE?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
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