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TRAIPSES

8 letters

Definition of TRAIPSES

noun

plural of traipse

TRAIPSE

verb

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

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Word DNA

TRAIPSES 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 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,168)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TRAIPSE · 6 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TRAIPSES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
19
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

profPATRON

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRAIPSES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TRAIPSES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIPRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

PASTRIESPIASTERSPIASTRESRASPIEST

Words that start TRAIPS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TRAIPSES?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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