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RYPE

4 letters

Definition of RYPE

noun

A bird, the ptarmigan.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Danish rype.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

RYPE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 2 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
56
First board
69
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 42 days.

First ever to find it

ventus

on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RYPE
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RYPE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EPRY - 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 RYPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RYPERRYPECKRYPECKS

Could you have found RYPE?

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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.

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