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SHOEPAC
Definition of SHOEPAC
noun
A shoe, especially a warm, waterproofed boot.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Unami chipakw/chipàkw (“shoe”); the spelling altered under the influence of the English words shoe and pack.
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.
SHOEPAC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 122, 19 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHOEPAC starts with S and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACEHOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHOEPA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHOEPAC?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
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