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GAIJIN
Definition of GAIJIN
noun
A non-Japanese person.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 外人 (gaijin, “foreigner”), from Middle Chinese 外人 (ngwaj nyin). Compare Mandarin 外人 (wàirén), from Old Chinese 外人 (*ŋʷaːds njin, “foreigner, outsider” < “non-relative”), from 外 (wài, “outside, outer”) + 人 (rén, “person”).
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.
GAIJIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GAIJIN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AGIIJN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found GAIJIN?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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