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UPON
About UPON
UPON is a valid 4-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UPON in OUTLIER
It has fitted 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 60, 19 July 2026.
Built from these letters
UPON starts with U and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read NOPU - 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 UPON?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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