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DOPAS
Definition of DOPAS
Wiktionary has no entry for DOPAS itself. This is its base word, DOPA.
noun
The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DOPA.
Shortened from dihydroxyphenylalanine.
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.
DOPAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
Built from these letters
DOPAS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADOPS - 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.
Could you have found DOPAS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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