The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

TROPING

7 letters

Definition of TROPING

verb

present participle and gerund of trope

TROPE

noun

Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

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Word DNA

TROPING inherits its ancestry from its root, TROP.

How it is built

verb

Same root, TROP · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

TROPING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 11 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
29
First board
154
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

clowngod

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TROPING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TROPING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINOPRT - 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.

Words that start TROPIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TROPING?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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