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SPIRE
Definition of SPIRE
noun
The stalk or stem of a plant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
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.
SPIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPIRE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
8 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPIRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found SPIRE?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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