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JAYWALKING
Definition of JAYWALKING
noun
An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JAYWALKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JAYWALKING starts with J and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAGIJKLNWY - 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 JAYWAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found JAYWALKING?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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