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LUMPENS
Definition of LUMPENS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of lumpen
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Word DNA
LUMPENS inherits its ancestry from its root, LUMPEN.
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LUMPENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LUMPENS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ELMNPSU - 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.
Could you have found LUMPENS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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