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KEPIS

5 letters

Definition of KEPIS

noun

plural of kepi

KEPI

noun

A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.

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Word DNA

KEPIS inherits its ancestry from its root, KEPI.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. German
  3. French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,888)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, KEPI · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

KEPIS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 23 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
56
First board
155
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mahmoud

on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found KEPIS?

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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.

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