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ABUGIDA
Definition of ABUGIDA
noun
A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
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Where it comes from
From Ge'ez አቡጊዳ (ʾäbugida). First use appears c. 1961. See cite below.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ABUGIDA · 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.
ABUGIDA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABUGIDA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABDGIU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ABUGID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABUGIDA?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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