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TOPMAKING
Definition of TOPMAKING
noun
The processing of wool into "top" (bundles of combed slivers with the noils removed).
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Where it comes from
From top + making.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
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.
TOPMAKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOPMAKING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIKMNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOPMAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TOPMAKING?
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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.
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