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DAIKONS
Definition of DAIKONS
noun
plural of daikon
noun
An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper. The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
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Word DNA
DAIKONS inherits its ancestry from its root, DAIKON.
Line of descent
- Japanese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
25th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (292)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DAIKON · 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.
DAIKONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DAIKONS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADIKNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found DAIKONS?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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