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INJERA

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛɹə/6 letters

Definition of INJERA

noun

A pancakelike flatbread made from fermented teff flour, a traditional food of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, and the Nuer people of Sudan.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Tigrinya እንጀራ (ʾənǧära) or Amharic እንጀራ (ʾənǧära).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, INJERA · 1 relative in the game

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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.

INJERA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 17 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
69
First board
158
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

shvps4deth

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INJERA
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INJERA starts with I and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEIJNR - 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 INJERA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found INJERA?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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