The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

ULAMA

5 letters

Definition of ULAMA

noun

A modern ball game descended from tlachtli.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. Doublet of ullamaliztli.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

ULAMA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 4 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
37
First board
99
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ULAMA
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ULAMA starts with U and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AALMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start ULAMA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ULAMA?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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