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ALIMONIES

9 letters

Definition of ALIMONIES

noun

plural of alimony

ALIMONY

noun

A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.

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Word DNA

ALIMONIES inherits its ancestry from its root, ALIMONY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.5%

of traced words share this origin (24,890)

Italic

branch · 30.5% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, ALIMONY · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ALIMONIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 26 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
28
First board
164
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

rainy

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ALIMONIES
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ALIMONIES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIILMNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start ALIMON

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ALIMONIES?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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