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SPRITE
Definition of SPRITE
noun
Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined: A spirit; a soul; a shade. An apparition; a ghost. An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPRITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 57, 16 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 95 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SPRITE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
9 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPRITE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found SPRITE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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