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TIPSY

/ˈtɪp.si/5 letters

Definition of TIPSY

adjective

Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From tips + -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, TIP · 12 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TIPSY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 129 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 38 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
20
First board
159
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

eyedoc

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TIPSY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TIPSY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found TIPSY?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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