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GROUPER
Definition of GROUPER
noun
Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Portuguese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
25th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (107)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GROUP · 4 relatives 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.
GROUPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROUPER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGOPRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found GROUPER?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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