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PLOP

/plɒp/4 letters

Definition of PLOP

noun

A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.

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.

PLOP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
76
First board
117
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

bramilygames

on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PLOP
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PLOP starts with P and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read LOPP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.

Words that start PLOP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PLOPSPLOPPEDPLOPPING

Could you have found PLOP?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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