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KASME
Definition of KASME
interjection
I swear
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari قسمے (qasme), vocative case of قَسَم (qasam, “oath; swear”), taken from Urdu قَسَم (qasam), itself from Classical Persian قَسَم (qasam), ultimately from Arabic قَسَم (qasam, “oath”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,114)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KASME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 71 days.
Built from these letters
KASME starts with K and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEKMS - 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 KASME?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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