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TRAPESING
Definition of TRAPESING
verb
present participle and gerund of trapes
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Word DNA
TRAPESING inherits its ancestry from its root, TRAPES.
Line of descent
- Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.8%
of traced words share this origin (225)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRAPES · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRAPESING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TRAPESING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TRAPES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found TRAPESING?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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