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HANDGRIP
Definition of HANDGRIP
noun
A handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hand grip, handegrip, from Old English handgripe (“handgrip”), from Proto-West Germanic *handugripi (“handgrip”), equivalent to hand + grip. Cognate with Dutch handgreep (“handgrip, grasp”), German Handgriff (“handgrip, grasp, handle, hilt”), Danish håndgreb (“handgrip”), Swedish håndgrepp (“handgrip, handle, hilt”).
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.
HANDGRIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HANDGRIP starts with H and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ADGHINPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HANDGRIP?
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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.
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