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FEIJOA
Definition of FEIJOA
noun
A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the New Latin former genus name Feijoa, which was named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó by the German botanist Otto Karl Berg.
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.
FEIJOA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FEIJOA starts with F and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEFIJO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start FEIJOA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found FEIJOA?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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