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LISP
Definition of LISP
noun
The act or a habit of lisping.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
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.
LISP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 14, 3 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LISP starts with L and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read ILPS - 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 LISP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found LISP?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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