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NAPERY
Definition of NAPERY
noun
Household linen, especially table linen.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English naperie, from Anglo-Norman naperie, Middle French naperie, from Old French nape + -erie.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (840)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NAPERY · 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.
NAPERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NAPERY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AENPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found NAPERY?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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