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ULEMA
Definition of ULEMA
noun
plural of alim; the guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam; clerics.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish علما (ulemâ), from Arabic عُلَمَاء (ʕulamāʔ, plural of عَالِم (ʕālim, “learned one”)). Doublet of ulama and olema.
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.
ULEMA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 85, 13 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ULEMA starts with U and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AELMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ULEMA?
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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.
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