The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

DOPS

4 letters

Definition of DOPS

noun

plural of dop

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

DOPS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 4 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
76
First board
112
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

oldocfinkle

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOPS
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DOPS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DOPS - 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 DOPS?

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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