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SPEARMINT
Definition of SPEARMINT
noun
A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From spear (“sprout of a plant, spire”) + mint, so named due to its spiry blooms.
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.
SPEARMINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPEARMINT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEIMNPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPEARM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SPEARMINT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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