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HARP
Definition of HARP
noun
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body Any instrument of the same musicological type.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HARP starts with H and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AHPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HARP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found HARP?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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