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DELOPE

6 letters

Definition of DELOPE

verb

To fire a gun into the air in order to end a duel.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French déloper (“throw away”). (Can this etymology be sourced?)

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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.

DELOPE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 3 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
93
First board
100
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

byrdie

on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DELOPE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DELOPE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEELOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

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 DELOPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DELOPEDDELOPES

Could you have found DELOPE?

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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.

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