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RIKISHA
Definition of RIKISHA
noun
Alternative form of rickshaw.
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Word DNA
RIKISHA inherits its ancestry from its root, RICKSHAW.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
41st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (87)
branch · 0.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RICKSHAW · 5 relatives 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.
RIKISHA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RIKISHA starts with R and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AHIIKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RIKISHA?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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