The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

DAIMYOS

7 letters

Definition of DAIMYOS

noun

plural of daimyo

DAIMYO

noun

A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

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Word DNA

DAIMYOS inherits its ancestry from its root, DAIMYO.

Line of descent

  1. Chinese
  2. Japanese
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Chinese

Deepest traced root

31st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (65)

Sinitic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, DAIMYO · 1 relative in the game

Every Chinese word → · 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.

DAIMYOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 16 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
52
First board
147
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

travelgirl

on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DAIMYOS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DAIMYOS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADIMOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DAIMYO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DAIMYOS?

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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.

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