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ZAMOUSE
Definition of ZAMOUSE
noun
A West African buffalo, Syncerus caffer brachyceros, with short horns and large ears.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Ultimately from Arabic جاموس (jāmūs, “buffalo”).
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.
ZAMOUSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZAMOUSE starts with Z and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMOSUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZAMOUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ZAMOUSE?
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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.
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