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JAMES
About JAMES
JAMES is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JAMES in OUTLIER
It has fitted 23 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JAMES starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEJMS - 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 JAMES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found JAMES?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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