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SAYONARA
Definition of SAYONARA
interjection
Goodbye, adios, adieu.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese さようなら (sayōnara, “farewell”, literally “if that's the way it is”) or its shorter, less traditional form さよなら (sayonara).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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 (325)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SAYONARA 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 19 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
SAYONARA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAANORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SAYONA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SAYONARA?
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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