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JAPERY
Definition of JAPERY
noun
Jesting, joking
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
JAPERY carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Jesting; joking; raillery; mockery; buffoonery.
noun
Jesting; buffoonery.
noun
acting like a clown or buffoon
Where it comes from
From jape + -ery.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, JAPERY · 1 relative in the game
JAPERY in a sentence
“Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JAPERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 165 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JAPERY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEJPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of JAPERY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found JAPERY?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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