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TILAPIA
Definition of TILAPIA
noun
Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TILAPIA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TILAPIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TILAPIA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAIILPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and A appear more than once.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found TILAPIA?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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