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TAPENADE
Definition of TAPENADE
noun
A Provençal dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies, and olive oil, usually eaten with bread as an hors d'œuvre.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French tapenade, from Provençal and Occitan tapenada, tapenado, a diminutive of tapeno (“caper”), variant of tàpero, from Old Occitan tapera, from Latin capparis (“caper”). Influenced by Old Occitan tapia (“rammed earth”), referring to caper bushes growing against buildings made of rammed earth.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old Occitan
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TAPENADE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAPENADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Built from these letters
TAPENADE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEENPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found TAPENADE?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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