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SPLICE
Definition of SPLICE
noun
A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (453)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPLICE · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPLICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SPLICE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEILPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SPLICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SPLICE?
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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