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MATIPO
Definition of MATIPO
noun
Any of various flowering plants of the genus Myrsine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Māori matipou.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MATIPO · 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.
MATIPO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATIPO starts with M and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AIMOPT - 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.
Words that start MATIPO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MATIPO?
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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