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MOPPET

6 letters

Definition of MOPPET

noun

A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way.

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Other senses

MOPPET carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    A young child.

  2. noun

    A grimace.

  3. noun

    A puppet made of cloth; a rag-baby.

  4. noun

    A young girl. Also mopsy, mopsey.

Where it comes from

From mop (“child, girl”) + -et.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-et

Same root, MOPPET · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

MOPPET in a sentence

“The moppet is a quick study, though he needs to be counseled not to smile adorably while making his subjects tremble in fear of his wrath.”

My Year of Flops, 2010

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

MOPPET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 145 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 3 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
110
First board
152
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

crumrin

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MOPPET
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MOPPET starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EMOPPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of MOPPET. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

Words that start MOPPET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MOPPET?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

Senses and citation via Wordnik.