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UPHOLSTER
Definition of UPHOLSTER
verb
To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).
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Where it comes from
Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster.
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.
UPHOLSTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
UPHOLSTER starts with U and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHLOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start UPHOLS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found UPHOLSTER?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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