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MAINTOPS
Definition of MAINTOPS
noun
plural of maintop
noun
A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.
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Word DNA
MAINTOPS inherits its ancestry from its root, MAINTOP.
How it is built
Same root, MAINTOP · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MAINTOPS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 116, 13 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAINTOPS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AIMNOPST - 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 MAINTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MAINTOPS?
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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