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SWEAT
Definition of SWEAT
noun
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Same root, SWEAT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese and 5 more.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SWEAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SWEAT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AESTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SWEAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SWEAT?
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