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SURPLICE

/ˈsɝplɪs/8 letters

Definition of SURPLICE

noun

A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English surplys, from Old French surpeliz, from Medieval Latin superpelliceum, from Latin super (“over”) and pellis (“fur”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SURPLICE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 27 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
19
First board
102
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

clupshaw

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SURPLICE
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SURPLICE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEILPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SURPLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SURPLICEDSURPLICES

Could you have found SURPLICE?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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