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STOOPED

/stuːpt/7 letters

Definition of STOOPED

verb

simple past and past participle of stoop

STOOP

noun

A stooping, bent position of the body.

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Word DNA

STOOPED inherits its ancestry from its root, STOOP.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,223)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, STOOP · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Old Norse.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

STOOPED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 17 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
22
First board
157
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 42, 1 July 2026.

Built from these letters

STOOPED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

STOOPED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEOOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start STOOPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found STOOPED?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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