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JUGUM

/ˈd͡ʒuː.ɡəm/5 letters

Definition of JUGUM

noun

A connecting ridge or projection, especially on a bone.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowing from Latin jugum (“a yoke, collar; a pair of anything; the summit, ridge”). Doublet of yoke and yuga.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

JUGUM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 4 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
70
First board
114
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 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

kyle_gb

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

JUGUM
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

JUGUM starts with J and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read GJMUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start JUGUM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found JUGUM?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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