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MAHJONGS
Definition of MAHJONGS
Wiktionary has no entry for MAHJONGS itself. This is its base word, MAHJONG.
noun
A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MAHJONG.
From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒／儿 /ŋ̍/.
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.
MAHJONGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 73, 1 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAHJONGS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGHJMNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start MAHJON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MAHJONGS?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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