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CALYPSO
Definition of CALYPSO
noun
A style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CALYPSO · 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.
CALYPSO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 319 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CALYPSO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACLOPSY - 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.
Words that start CALYPS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found CALYPSO?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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