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CHIYOGAMI

/ˌtʃɪjəʊˈɡɑːmɪ/9 letters

Definition of CHIYOGAMI

noun

The repeating pattern found in many origami papers, originally applied with wood blocks, but now mainly using silkscreen techniques.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 千代紙 (ちよがみ, chiyogami, “gaily colored paper”, literally “paper of a thousand worlds”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CHIYOGAMI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 124
Its 2 boards, across 124 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
124
Latest board
52
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

xthawx

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHIYOGAMI
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CHIYOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHIYOGAMI?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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