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ARAPAIMA
Definition of ARAPAIMA
noun
Any large, bonytongue fish in the genus Arapaima, native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America. One of the type species of this genus (Arapaima gigas).
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from taxonomic name Arapaima, from Kari'na warapaimo.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ARAPAIMA · 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.
ARAPAIMA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARAPAIMA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAAAIMPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ARAPAIMA?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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