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DRAPERS
Definition of DRAPERS
noun
plural of draper
DRAPER
noun
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
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Word DNA
DRAPERS inherits its ancestry from its root, DRAPER.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (840)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRAPERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DRAPERS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R 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 DRAPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DRAPERS?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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