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ZAPATEO
Definition of ZAPATEO
noun
A competitive stamping dance with percussive footwork, historically popular among the gauchos of South America.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish zapateo.
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.
ZAPATEO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 125, 22 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZAPATEO starts with Z and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AAEOPTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZAPATE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ZAPATEO?
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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.
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