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SPET

/spɛt/4 letters

Definition of SPET

noun

spittle

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English spet.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

SPET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 3 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
28
First board
118
Latest board
82
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

lucario

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPET
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SPET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPETSSPETCHSPETCHESSPETSNAZSPETTINGSPETZNAZSPETSNAZESSPETZNAZES

Could you have found SPET?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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