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NIGIRIS
Definition of NIGIRIS
Wiktionary has no entry for NIGIRIS itself. This is its base word, NIGIRI.
noun
Regular sushi: a piece of raw fish (or other topping) on top of a small oblong brick of sticky white rice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for NIGIRI.
Borrowed from Japanese 握り (nigiri, “grasping, gripping”, short for 握り寿司 nigirizushi, literally “gripped sushi” from the way the sushi rice is molded in the hand).
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.
NIGIRIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NIGIRIS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GIIINRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found NIGIRIS?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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