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DOJO

/ˈdəʊdʒəʊ/4 letters

Definition of DOJO

noun

A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 道場 (dōjō, literally “place of the ways”). Doublet of dojang.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

DOJO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 11 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
5
First board
105
Latest board
58
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

DOJO starts with D and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read DJOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start DOJO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOJO?

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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.

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