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ROOPING
Definition of ROOPING
verb
present participle and gerund of roop
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Word DNA
ROOPING inherits its ancestry from its root, ROOP.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,623)
How it is built
Same root, ROOP · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Scots, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROOPING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 82 days.
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
ROOPING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINOOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found ROOPING?
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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