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HAPUKU
Definition of HAPUKU
noun
A large and valuable food fish, Polyprion oxygeneios, in the family Serranidae of New Zealand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Māori hāpuku.
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.
HAPUKU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAPUKU starts with H and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AHKPUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found HAPUKU?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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