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CHIYOGAMI
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).
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.
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
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
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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