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OZEKI
Definition of OZEKI
noun
A sumo wrestler ranking below yokozuna and above sekiwake; champion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 大関(おおぜき) (ōzeki).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Japanese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
25th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (323)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OZEKI · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OZEKI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OZEKI starts with O and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read EIKOZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found OZEKI?
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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.
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