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SUMO
Definition of SUMO
noun
A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 相(す)撲(もう) (sumō).
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 (298)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SUMO · 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.
SUMO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SUMO starts with S and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read MOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SUMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found SUMO?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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