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SPICE
Definition of SPICE
noun
Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English spice, from Old French espice (modern épice), from Late Latin speciēs (“spice, good, ware”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, sort”). Doublet of species.
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.
SPICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
SPICE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SPICE?
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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