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TURPS

/tɝps/5 letters

Definition of TURPS

noun

Turpentine or turpentine substitute.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping of turpentine + -s (diminutive suffix).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, TURP · 1 relative in the game

TURP

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.

TURPS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 14 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
41
First board
140
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

sheryl

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TURPS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TURPS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read PRSTU - 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.

Could you have found TURPS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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