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CHEAPO

6 letters

Definition of CHEAPO

adjective

Inexpensive and of poor quality.

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Where it comes from

From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, CHEAP · 14 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CHEAPO 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
163
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 163, 30 October 2026.

Built from these letters

CHEAPO
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CHEAPO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACEHOP - 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 CHEAPO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHEAPO?

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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.

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