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SYLVAN
Definition of SYLVAN
adjective
Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin silvanus, cognate with Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle. Analysable as sylva (“silva”) + -an.
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
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,789)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SYLVAN · 1 relative 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.
SYLVAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 60 boards so far. 334 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SYLVAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ALNSVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SYLVAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found SYLVAN?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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