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YAUPON
Definition of YAUPON
noun
The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States.
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Where it comes from
From a Catawba word, most likely yap, yop, yą (“tree”), with the second element being either a diminutive suffix or pą (“leaf”) (resulting in the compound yąpą); alternatively, perhaps directly from a longer form of the word for leaf, 'yap'hâ.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, YAUPON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YAUPON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 94, 22 August 2026.
Built from these letters
YAUPON starts with Y and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ANOPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found YAUPON?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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