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DORP
Definition of DORP
noun
A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
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.
DORP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 54, 13 July 2026.
Built from these letters
DORP starts with D and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DOPR - 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.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found DORP?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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