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WASPIEST

8 letters

Definition of WASPIEST

adjective

superlative form of waspy: most waspy

WASPY

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.

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Word DNA

WASPIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, WASP.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,293)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, WASP · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Czech, Danish, Dutch, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish and 4 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WASPIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

normdeplume

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WASPIEST
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WASPIEST starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEIPSSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start WASPIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WASPIEST?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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