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GREP
Definition of GREP
verb
To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GREP · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GREP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GREP starts with G and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read EGPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found GREP?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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