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KAPH

/kɑːf/4 letters

Definition of KAPH

noun

The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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Where it comes from

From Hebrew כָּף (kaf, “kaph”), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu(m)), Hebrew כַּף (kaf, “hand/foot”), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)) Doublet of kappa.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. Hebrew
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.3%

of traced words share this origin (399)

Semitic

branch · 1.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, KAPH · 1 relative in the game

Every Arabic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

KAPH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 16 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
30
First board
151
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

zzombie

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KAPH
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

KAPH starts with K and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AHKP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start KAPH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KAPH?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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