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FRUMPISH
Definition of FRUMPISH
adjective
Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing, or being clothing of this kind.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From frump + -ish.
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.
FRUMPISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRUMPISH starts with F and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read FHIMPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FRUMPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FRUMPISH?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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