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AMADOUS
Definition of AMADOUS
Wiktionary has no entry for AMADOUS itself. This is its base word, AMADOU.
noun
A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for AMADOU.
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.
AMADOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AMADOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADMOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found AMADOUS?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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