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YIPPERS

7 letters

Definition of YIPPERS

noun

plural of yipper

YIPPER

noun

One who makes a yipping sound. Ellipsis of yipper dog.

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Word DNA

YIPPERS inherits its ancestry from its root, YIP.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,064)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, YIP · 6 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · 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.

YIPPERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 2 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
159
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

ngc4151

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YIPPERS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YIPPERS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIPPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start YIPPER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

YIPPER

Could you have found YIPPERS?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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