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KYPE
Definition of KYPE
noun
The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male of most salmonid species when it is ready to spawn.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”), German Kippe (“stub”), both from Latin cippus (“stake, post, boundary marker”).
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.
KYPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KYPE starts with K and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EKPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found KYPE?
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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.
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