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ANTIPOPE
Definition of ANTIPOPE
noun
A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
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Where it comes from
From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- + pope), from Medieval Latin antipāpa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,726)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ANTIPOPE · 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.
ANTIPOPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ANTIPOPE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINOPPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.
Words that start ANTIPO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANTIPOPE?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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