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ORIGAMIS

8 letters

Definition of ORIGAMIS

noun

plural of origami

ORIGAMI

noun

The Japanese art of paper folding.

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Word DNA

ORIGAMIS inherits its ancestry from its root, ORIGAMI.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

17th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.6%

of traced words share this origin (180)

Japonic

branch · 0.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, ORIGAMI · 1 relative in the game

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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.

ORIGAMIS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 28 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
21
First board
147
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ORIGAMIS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ORIGAMIS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGIIMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start ORIGAM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ORIGAMIS?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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