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SCAUPING
Definition of SCAUPING
Wiktionary has no entry for SCAUPING itself. This is its base word, SCAUP.
noun
Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for SCAUP.
See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SCAUP · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCAUPING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First found by a player on Day 123, 20 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SCAUPING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGINPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found SCAUPING?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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