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WENDIGOS
Definition of WENDIGOS
noun
plural of wendigo
noun
A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
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Another sense
WENDIGOS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of wendigo.
Word DNA
WENDIGOS inherits its ancestry from its root, WENDIGO.
How it is built
Same root, WENDIGO · 1 relative in the game
WENDIGOS in a sentence
“Then Sam remarks, “Remember when we used to just hunt wendigos, how simple things were?””
Supernatural: Two Minutes to Midnight - Pink Raygun.com, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WENDIGOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 74 boards so far. 223 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WENDIGOS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGINOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found WENDIGOS?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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