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SHIITAKE
Definition of SHIITAKE
noun
A wide, brown variety of edible mushroom, Lentinula edodes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 椎茸 (shītake), from 椎 (shī, “a shii or chinquapin tree”) + 茸 (take, “a mushroom”), from the way the mushrooms tend to grow on chinquapin logs. First cited in English in 1877.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHIITAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHIITAKE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIIKST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SHIITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found SHIITAKE?
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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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