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TAPIOCA

/tæpiˈoʊkə/7 letters

Definition of TAPIOCA

noun

A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Portuguese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Portuguese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (110)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllables

Same root, TAPIOCA · 1 relative in the game

Every Portuguese word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TAPIOCA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 411 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 34 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
34
Boards found on
15
First board
143
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TAPIOCA
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start TAPIOC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TAPIOCA?

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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.

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