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SPRITZ
Definition of SPRITZ
noun
A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is said by some sources to be borrowed from German Spritzer, rather than being an English agent noun derived from this verb, but by surface analysis the connection is clear, even if sources do not adduce the evidence for the diachrony.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
31st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (198)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPRITZ · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPRITZ in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPRITZ starts with S and ends with Z. Sorted, its letters read IPRSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SPRITZ
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found SPRITZ?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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