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SEXTUPLE

/sɛkˈstʃuːpəl/8 letters

Definition of SEXTUPLE

noun

a sixfold amount

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Other senses

SEXTUPLE carries 4 further meanings.

  1. transitive & intransitive verb

    To multiply or be multiplied by six.

  2. adjective

    Consisting of six parts or members.

  3. adjective

    Six times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.

  4. adjective

    Having six beats to the measure.

Where it comes from

Formed (in imitation of quadruple) from Latin sextus (“sixth”): compare French sextuple.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. Latin
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,177)

Romance

branch · 15.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, SEXTUPLE · 2 relatives in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

SEXTUPLE in a sentence

“Prior to 2008/2009 season, the sextuple was a concept that existed only on”

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SEXTUPLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 13 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
67
First board
144
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 67, 26 July 2026.

Built from these letters

SEXTUPLE
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SEXTUPLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EELPSTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of SEXTUPLE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

Words that start SEXTUP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEXTUPLYSEXTUPLEDSEXTUPLESSEXTUPLETSEXTUPLETSSEXTUPLINGSEXTUPLICATESEXTUPLICATEDSEXTUPLICATESSEXTUPLICATING

Could you have found SEXTUPLE?

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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

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