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CLIPED
Definition of CLIPED
Wiktionary has no entry for CLIPED itself. This is its base word, CLIPE.
verb
Past tense of clipe, a Scots form of clype: to tell tales; to inform on someone.
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for CLIPE.
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, CLIP · 9 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLIPED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 59 days.
First found by a player on Day 102, 30 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CLIPED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEILP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found CLIPED?
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