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OUTSTRIP
Definition of OUTSTRIP
verb
To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From out- (prefix forming verbs with the sense of exceeding or surpassing) + strip (“(obsolete) to move or pass by quickly”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, OUTSTRIP · 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.
OUTSTRIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OUTSTRIP starts with O and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read IOPRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start OUTSTR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OUTSTRIP?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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