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JAGA

/ˈd͡ʒaɡa/4 letters

Definition of JAGA

verb

To keep watch, to watch over.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Malay jaga (“to awake; to watch over”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

JAGA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its one board, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
43
First board
79
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.

First ever to find it

panegyrist

on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start JAGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

JAGASJAGAEDJAGAING

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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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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