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SPARTHS

7 letters

Definition of SPARTHS

noun

plural of sparth

SPARTH

noun

A battle-axe or halberd.

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Word DNA

SPARTHS inherits its ancestry from its root, SPARTH.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (856)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SPARTH · 2 relatives in the game

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SPARTHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
37
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.

First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.

Built from these letters

SPARTHS
7
Letters
1
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SPARTHS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHPRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start SPARTH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SPARTHS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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