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JIMINY
Definition of JIMINY
interjection
An expression of mild surprise or annoyance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
An alteration of earlier Gemini (“an expression of mild surprise or annoyance”); see there for more.
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.
JIMINY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JIMINY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IIJMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found JIMINY?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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