The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TAPU
Definition of TAPU
noun
Alternative form of taboo.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Māori tapu. Doublet of kapu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAPU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAPU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read APTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 TAPU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found TAPU?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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