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KARMA

/ˈkɐɾ.mɑː/5 letters

Definition of KARMA

noun

The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

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

KARMA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 20 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
6
First board
108
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

KARMA starts with K and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAKMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

MAKARMARKA

Words that start KARMA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KARMA?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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