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SPERMY

/spɜːmi/6 letters

Definition of SPERMY

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of sperm.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sperm + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, SPERM · 7 relatives in the game

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.

SPERMY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
157
First board
161
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 157, 24 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

dpnz

on Day 157, 24 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPERMY
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SPERMY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EMPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found SPERMY?

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 157 - and most players walked straight past it.

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