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JUDOS
Definition of JUDOS
Wiktionary has no entry for JUDOS itself. This is its base word, JUDO.
noun
A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujitsu.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for JUDO.
Borrowed from Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう) (jūdō, literally “the soft way”).
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.
JUDOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JUDOS starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DJOSU - 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.
Could you have found JUDOS?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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