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WISP
Definition of WISP
noun
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).
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.
WISP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WISP starts with W and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read IPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WISP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found WISP?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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