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SPINSTER
Definition of SPINSTER
noun
A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living.
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.
SPINSTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 118, 15 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SPINSTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EINPRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SPINST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPINSTER?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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