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GROPE
Definition of GROPE
verb
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip.
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.
GROPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GROPE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 GROPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GROPE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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