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GRIPPE
Definition of GRIPPE
noun
Influenza, the flu.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.
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.
GRIPPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRIPPE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGIPPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 GRIPPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRIPPE?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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