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SCOOP
Definition of SCOOP
noun
Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCOOP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 48, 7 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SCOOP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read COOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 SCOOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SCOOP?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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