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AFIKOMEN
Definition of AFIKOMEN
noun
The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Yiddish אַפֿיקומן (afikoymen), from Hebrew אֲפִיקוֹמָן ('afikomán).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (526)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AFIKOMEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AFIKOMEN starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEFIKMNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found AFIKOMEN?
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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.
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