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TAIPAN

/ˈtaɪpæn/6 letters

Definition of TAIPAN

noun

Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

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Where it comes from

From Wik-Mungkan tay-pan (or dhayban).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

TAIPAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 5 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
57
First board
98
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 57, 16 July 2026.

Built from these letters

TAIPAN
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TAIPAN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAINPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TAIPAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TAIPAN?

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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.

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