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POPLIN
Definition of POPLIN
noun
A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
An alteration (taken as related to Pope) of French papeline, a distortion of Poperinge, a town in Flanders which was a centre for textile production.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POPLIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POPLIN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ILNOPP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.
Words that start POPLIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POPLIN?
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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