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FRUMPED

7 letters

Definition of FRUMPED

verb

simple past and past participle of frump

FRUMP

noun

A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.

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Word DNA

FRUMPED inherits its ancestry from its root, FRUMP.

Line of descent

  1. Middle Dutch
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Middle Dutch

Deepest traced root

26th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (109)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-lefor-

Same root, FRUMP · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle Dutch word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

FRUMPED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 23 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
30
First board
150
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

bluemoon

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FRUMPED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FRUMPED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFMPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found FRUMPED?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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