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TRIPEDAL
Definition of TRIPEDAL
adjective
Having three feet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
TRIPEDAL carries 2 further meanings.
adjective
Having three feet or legs; tripodal.
Three-footed: as, a tripedal stand.
Where it comes from
From Latin tripedalis, from tri- + pes, pedis (“a foot”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
TRIPEDAL in a sentence
“It is this noisy, confused, tripedal creature that has assumed control over the medical market.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRIPEDAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 124 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRIPEDAL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEILPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found TRIPEDAL?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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