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MATAI
Definition of MATAI
noun
A Samoan chief.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Samoan matai.
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.
MATAI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATAI starts with M and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AAIMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found MATAI?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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