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PUJA
Definition of PUJA
noun
A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Sanskrit
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (254)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUJA · 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.
PUJA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 51, 10 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PUJA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AJPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PUJA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found PUJA?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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