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SOURGUM
Definition of SOURGUM
noun
Alternative spelling of sorghum.
noun
A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
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Word DNA
SOURGUM inherits its ancestry from its root, SORGHUM.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,425)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SORGHUM · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOURGUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 177, 13 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 177, 13 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOURGUM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GMORSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SOURGUM?
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 177 - and most players walked straight past it.
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