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SPIRANTS

8 letters

Definition of SPIRANTS

noun

plural of spirant

SPIRANT

noun

A non-sibilant fricative.

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Word DNA

SPIRANTS inherits its ancestry from its root, SPIRANT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SPIRANT · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

SPIRANTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

martip

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPIRANTS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SPIRANTS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AINPRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SPIRAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPIRANTSPIRANTIZESPIRANTIZEDSPIRANTIZESSPIRANTIZINGSPIRANTIZATIONSPIRANTIZATIONS

Could you have found SPIRANTS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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