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REIKI

/ˈɹeɪki/5 letters

Definition of REIKI

noun

A Japanese form of pseudomedicine that involves transferring chi through one's palms.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

1970s, from Japanese 霊気 (reiki, literally “spiritual chi/ki”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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 (319)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, REIKI · 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.

REIKI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 69 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 26 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
30
First board
163
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

mac

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REIKI
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

REIKI starts with R and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read EIIKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start REIKI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found REIKI?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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