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NAMAYCUSH
Definition of NAMAYCUSH
noun
The togue: a large North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Cree ᓇᒣᑯᐢ (namekos, “lake trout”), from Proto-Algonquian *name·kwa (“lake trout”).
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.
NAMAYCUSH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NAMAYCUSH starts with N and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AACHMNSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start NAMAYC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found NAMAYCUSH?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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