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CHAPERON
Definition of CHAPERON
noun
An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHAPERON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 95, 23 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CHAPERON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEHNOPR - 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.
Words that start CHAPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHAPERON?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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