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QORMAS

6 letters

Definition of QORMAS

noun

plural of qorma

KORMA · via qorma

noun

A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts. A curry of meat slowly braised with ghee. A mild curry (typically the mildest on a given menu), often with a fragrant coconut sauce.

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Word DNA

QORMAS inherits its ancestry from its root, KORMA.

Line of descent

  1. Turkish
  2. Persian
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Turkish

Deepest traced root

32nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (178)

Turkic

branch · 0.2% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, KORMA · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

QORMAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 6 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
81
First board
164
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

bigskygal17PATRONContributor

on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

QORMAS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

QORMAS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AMOQRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found QORMAS?

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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.

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