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TERAPIN
Definition of TERAPIN
noun
Alternative spelling of terrapin.
noun
Any of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TERAPIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TERAPIN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEINPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TERAPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TERAPIN?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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