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SOJOURN
Definition of SOJOURN
noun
A short stay somewhere.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
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.
SOJOURN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 120 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SOJOURN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read JNOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SOJOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found SOJOURN?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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