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JAMBIYAS

8 letters

Definition of JAMBIYAS

noun

plural of jambiya

JAMBIYA

noun

An Arabian (especially Yemeni) dagger with a short curved blade that is worn on a belt.

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Word DNA

JAMBIYAS inherits its ancestry from its root, JAMBIYA.

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

11th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,122)

Semitic

branch · 2.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, JAMBIYA · 3 relatives 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.

JAMBIYAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 2 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
70
First board
119
Latest board
49
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.

First ever to find it

professordrgir

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

JAMBIYAS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

JAMBIYAS starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABIJMSY - 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 JAMBIY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found JAMBIYAS?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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