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Definition of EMAIL
noun
A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).
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.
EMAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 41, 30 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
EMAIL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEILM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start EMAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found EMAIL?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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