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CYPRUS
About CYPRUS
CYPRUS is a valid 6-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CYPRUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CYPRUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CPRSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CYPRUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found CYPRUS?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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