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CHUMP
Definition of CHUMP
noun
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
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Where it comes from
Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop.
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.
CHUMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CHUMP starts with C and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CHMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHUMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found CHUMP?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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