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ROUP
Definition of ROUP
verb
To cry or shout.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A variant of roop.
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.
ROUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 42, 1 July 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
ROUP starts with R and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read OPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROUP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found ROUP?
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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