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RUMAKIS
Definition of RUMAKIS
noun
plural of rumaki
noun
A mock-Polynesian hors d'oeuvre, usually made from water chestnuts and pieces of duck or chicken liver wrapped in bacon and marinated in soy sauce and either ginger or brown sugar.
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Word DNA
RUMAKIS inherits its ancestry from its root, RUMAKI.
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 (298)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RUMAKI · 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.
RUMAKIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUMAKIS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AIKMRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 RUMAKIS?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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