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KYOGENS
Definition of KYOGENS
noun
plural of kyogen
KYOGEN
noun
A form of traditional Japanese theatre, once performed alongside noh as a comic intermission.
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Word DNA
KYOGENS inherits its ancestry from its root, KYOGEN.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
31st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (64)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KYOGEN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KYOGENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KYOGENS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGKNOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start KYOGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found KYOGENS?
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 135 - and most players walked straight past it.
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