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APPUY

5 letters

Definition of APPUY

noun

Alternative spelling of appui.

APPUI

noun

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

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Word DNA

APPUY inherits its ancestry from its root, APPUI.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,664)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, APPUI · 4 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

APPUY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its one board, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

gene_poolPATRON

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

APPUY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

APPUY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read APPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start APPUY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found APPUY?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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