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CLEM

/klɛm/4 letters

Definition of CLEM

verb

To be hungry; starve.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CLEM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 8 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
30
First board
120
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

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on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

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Built from these letters

CLEM
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CLEM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CELM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CLEM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CLEMSCLEMENTCLEMMEDCLEMATISCLEMENCYCLEMMINGCLEMENTLYCLEMATISESCLEMENCIESCLEMENTINECLEMENTINES

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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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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