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TILAPIA

/təˈlɑːpiə/7 letters

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).

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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 15 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 15 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
27
First board
102
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TILAPIA
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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.

Words that start TILAPI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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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