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JAMBEAUX

8 letters

Definition of JAMBEAUX

noun

plural of jambeau

JAMBEAU

noun

A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave.

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Word DNA

JAMBEAUX inherits its ancestry from its root, JAMBEAU.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Anglo-Norman
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,410)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, JAMBEAU · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

JAMBEAUX in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 6 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
73
First board
129
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.

First ever to find it

phembot

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

JAMBEAUX
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start JAMBEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found JAMBEAUX?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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