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HEMITROPOUS
Definition of HEMITROPOUS
adjective
Turned half round; half inverted.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
See hemitrope.
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.
HEMITROPOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 86, 14 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEMITROPOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHIMOOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HEMITRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEMITROPOUS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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