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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
Other senses
FRUMPISH carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Dull or plain.
adjective
Prim and sedate.
Cross-tempered; cross-grained; scornful.
Old-fashioned, as applied to dress; dowdy. Also frumpy.
Where it comes from
From frump + -ish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
FRUMPISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 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 mean much the same
Near-synonyms of FRUMPISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start FRUMPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
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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