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TRAIPSED

8 letters

Definition of TRAIPSED

verb

simple past and past participle of traipse

TRAIPSE

verb

To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.

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Another sense

TRAIPSED carries a second meaning.

  1. verb

    Simple past tense and past participle of traipse.

Word DNA

TRAIPSED inherits its ancestry from its root, TRAIPSE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,062)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, TRAIPSE · 3 relatives in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

TRAIPSED in a sentence

“Palmer told the jury that when he called police, the responding officers "traipsed" through the area and acted "non-professional."”

Police defend their handling of Levy investigation, 2010

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

TRAIPSED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 162 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 144
Its 63 boards, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
63
Boards found on
7
First board
144
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TRAIPSED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TRAIPS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TRAIPSED?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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