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WUXIA

/wuːˈʃɑː/5 letters

Definition of WUXIA

noun

A genre of East Asian fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists, typically set in Ancient China.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 武俠 / 武侠 (wǔxiá, “martial hero”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WUXIA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 120 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 12 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
32
First board
99
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

epimetheon

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

WUXIA starts with W and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AIUWX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start WUXIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WUXIA?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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