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ARCHTOP
Definition of ARCHTOP
noun
A style of large steel-stringed guitar having an arched belly, a neck at a slight angle to the body and a fretboard elevated above the soundboard.
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Where it comes from
From arch + top.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ARCHTOP · 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.
ARCHTOP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARCHTOP starts with A and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ACHOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ARCHTOP?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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