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KATI

4 letters

Definition of KATI

noun

A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Malay kati; see below.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

27th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (86)

Austronesian

branch · 0.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Every Malay word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

KATI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its one board, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
126
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

katness

on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KATI
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

KATI starts with K and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AIKT - 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.

Words that start KATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KATI?

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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.

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