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SOAPLAND
Definition of SOAPLAND
noun
A kind of Japanese brothel, ostensibly for bathing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Japanese ソープランド, equivalent to soap + land.
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.
SOAPLAND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 105, 2 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOAPLAND starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADLNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 SOAPLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SOAPLAND?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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