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JODHPURS
Definition of JODHPURS
noun
Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
JODHPURS carries 2 further meanings.
noun plural
Wide-hipped riding pants of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
noun
flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots
Where it comes from
1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, JODHPUR · 1 relative in the game
JODHPURS in a sentence
““Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.””
Matthew Yglesias » Boot v. Peres on Arab Peace Initiative, 2009
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JODHPURS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 289 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JODHPURS starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DHJOPRSU - 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.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found JODHPURS?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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