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ARCHTOPS
Definition of ARCHTOPS
noun
plural 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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Word DNA
ARCHTOPS inherits its ancestry from its root, ARCHTOP.
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.
ARCHTOPS 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 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 142, 9 October 2026.
Built from these letters
ARCHTOPS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ARCHTOPS?
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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