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DAMP
Definition of DAMP
adjective
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”), from Old English damp, from Proto-Germanic *dampaz. Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”).
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.
DAMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DAMP starts with D and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ADMP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DAMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found DAMP?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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