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NORIMONS

8 letters

Definition of NORIMONS

noun

plural of norimon

NORIMONO · via norimon

noun

An enclosed Japanese palanquin.

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Word DNA

NORIMONS inherits its ancestry from its root, NORIMONO.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (325)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, NORIMONO · 2 relatives in the game

NORIMONNORIMONO

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

NORIMONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
166
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

kirigiri

on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NORIMONS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NORIMONS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IMNNOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once.

Words that start NORIMO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NORIMON

Could you have found NORIMONS?

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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.

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