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IJTIHAD
Definition of IJTIHAD
noun
The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (398)
branch · 2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, IJTIHAD · 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.
IJTIHAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 69 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
IJTIHAD starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADHIIJT - 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 IJTIHAD?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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