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STOEP
Definition of STOEP
noun
A raised veranda in front of a house.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (460)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STOEP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 85, 13 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STOEP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read EOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STOEP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STOEP?
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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.
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