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RISP
Definition of RISP
verb
To rub together, to rasp or grate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).
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.
RISP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RISP starts with R and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read IPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RISP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RISP?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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