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KHANUM
Definition of KHANUM
noun
Female equivalent of khan.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خانم, from Proto-Turkic *kagan. Compare Old Anatolian Turkish خانم (ḫānum), Chagatai خانِم (xānım), and Classical Persian خانم (xānum), a Turkic borrowing. Compare begum for an analogous development.
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.
KHANUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KHANUM starts with K and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AHKMNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found KHANUM?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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