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SPUME
Definition of SPUME
noun
Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SPUME carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Foam or froth on a liquid, as on the sea.
intransitive verb
To froth or foam.
noun
Froth; foam; scum; frothy matter raised on liquors or fluid substances by boiling, effervescence, or agitation.
To froth; foam.
Where it comes from
From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPUME · 5 relatives in the game
SPUME in a sentence
“On January 6th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm, New Chapters « spume wrote:”
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPUME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 132 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPUME starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of SPUME. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start SPUME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found SPUME?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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