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SHUNPIKE
Definition of SHUNPIKE
noun
A side road or route.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Blend of shun + turnpike.
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.
SHUNPIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHUNPIKE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHIKNPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SHUNPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHUNPIKE?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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