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TAPENADE

/ˌtæ.pəˈnɑːd/8 letters

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).

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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.

TAPENADE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 9 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
43
First board
100
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.

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Built from these letters

TAPENADE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

Words that start TAPENA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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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