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AMADOU
Definition of AMADOU
noun
A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French amadou (“tinder, lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat.
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.
AMADOU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AMADOU starts with A and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AADMOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found AMADOU?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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