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COPYISM
Definition of COPYISM
noun
A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From copy + -ism.
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.
COPYISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COPYISM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CIMOPSY - 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 COPYIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found COPYISM?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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