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KAPUT

/kəˈpʊt/5 letters

Definition of KAPUT

adjective

Out of order; not working.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

KAPUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 30 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
19
First board
108
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

KAPUT
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

UPTAK

Words that start KAPUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

KAPUTT

Could you have found KAPUT?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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