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TROPE
Definition of TROPE
noun
Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
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Where it comes from
From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TROPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TROPE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TROPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found TROPE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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