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KALIS
Definition of KALIS
noun
A Filipino sword akin to the kris.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Tagalog kalis, from Malay keris, from Old Javanese kĕris, kris Doublet of kris.
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.
KALIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
Built from these letters
KALIS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AIKLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found KALIS?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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