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WARP
Definition of WARP
noun
The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape. The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish and Swedish varp.
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.
WARP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WARP starts with W and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read APRW - 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 WARP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found WARP?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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