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MOPANE

/məˈpɑːni/6 letters

Definition of MOPANE

noun

A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Tswana mophane.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MOPANE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 3 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
98
First board
117
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

perclyn55

on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MOPANE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MOPANE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start MOPANE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MOPANE?

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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.

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