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TRANSPOSES

10 letters

Definition of TRANSPOSES

noun

plural of transpose

TRANSPOSE

verb

To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.

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Word DNA

TRANSPOSES inherits its ancestry from its root, TRANSPOSE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,378)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, TRANSPOSE · 2 relatives in the game

TRANSPOSETRANSPOSED

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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.

TRANSPOSES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

qhenn

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRANSPOSES
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start TRANSP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TRANSPIRETRANSPORTTRANSPOSETRANSPHOBETRANSPIREDTRANSPIRESTRANSPLANTTRANSPOLARTRANSPORTSTRANSPOSALTRANSPOSEDTRANSPOSER

Could you have found TRANSPOSES?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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