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CLYPT

5 letters

Definition of CLYPT

verb

simple past and past participle of clip; obsolete spelling of clipped.

CLIP

verb

To grip tightly.

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Word DNA

CLYPT inherits its ancestry from its root, CLIP.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

verb

Same root, CLIP · 9 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

CLYPT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its one board, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
160
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

shwPATRON

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CLYPT
5
Letters
0
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
5
Longest consonant run
0
Longest vowel run

CLYPT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CLPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found CLYPT?

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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.

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