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ARIKI

5 letters

Definition of ARIKI

noun

A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Māori ariki, Proto-Polynesian *qariki.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ARIKI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 4 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
149
First board
170
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 170, 6 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

fuchsia_groan

on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARIKI
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ARIKI starts with A and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AIIKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start ARIKI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ARIKIS

Could you have found ARIKI?

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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.

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