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DESPOILS
Definition of DESPOILS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of despoil
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Word DNA
DESPOILS inherits its ancestry from its root, DESPOIL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DESPOIL · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DESPOILS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 76 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
DESPOILS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEILOPSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
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 DESPOI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DESPOILS?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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