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LAMPINGS

/ˈlæ̞mp/8 letters

Definition of LAMPINGS

Wiktionary has no entry for LAMPINGS itself. This is its base word, LAMP.

noun

A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

The origin recorded for LAMP.

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

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.

LAMPINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 95
Its 3 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
64
First board
72
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

esterchlorophyl

on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LAMPINGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start LAMPIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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