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TEPID
Definition of TEPID
adjective
Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit तप् (tap), Proto-Slavic *teplъ.
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.
TEPID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 357 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TEPID starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TEPID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found TEPID?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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