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GRUMPIES
Definition of GRUMPIES
noun
The act or state of being grumpy; grumpiness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From grumpy + -s.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GRUMPY · 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.
GRUMPIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRUMPIES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGIMPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GRUMPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRUMPIES?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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