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SUMOTORI

8 letters

Definition of SUMOTORI

noun

A sumo wrestler.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 相撲取り (sumōtori).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

17th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.6%

of traced words share this origin (184)

Japonic

branch · 0.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Every Japanese word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SUMOTORI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
79
First board
74
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 74 days.

First ever to find it

hokutofuji

on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SUMOTORI
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SUMOTORI starts with S and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read IMOORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

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 SUMOTO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUMOTORIS

Could you have found SUMOTORI?

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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.

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