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ROPIER

/ˈɹəʊpiəɹ/6 letters

Definition of ROPIER

adjective

comparative form of ropy: more ropy

ROPY

adjective

Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.

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Word DNA

ROPIER inherits its ancestry from its root, ROPY.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,835)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, ROPY · 4 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ROPIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its 2 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
154
First board
155
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

huihui

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ROPIER
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found ROPIER?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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