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WINDIGO
Definition of WINDIGO
noun
Alternative spelling 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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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WINDIGO · 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.
WINDIGO in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 137 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WINDIGO starts with W and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read DGIINOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found WINDIGO?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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