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WHAUP

5 letters

Definition of WHAUP

noun

The curlew, Numenius arquata.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, WHAUP · 1 relative in the game

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.

WHAUP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 32 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
40
First board
156
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WHAUP
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WHAUP starts with W and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AHPUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WHAUP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHAUP?

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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.

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