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INTERMENT

/ɪnˈtɝmənt/9 letters

Definition of INTERMENT

noun

The act of burying a dead body; burial.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,286)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ment

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

INTERMENT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 2 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
90
First board
154
Latest board
64
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

INTERMENT
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INTERMENT starts with I and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEIMNNRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, T and E appear more than once.

Words that start INTERM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INTERMATINTERMITINTERMIXINTERMALEINTERMATSINTERMESHINTERMITSINTERMONTINTERMUREINTERMARRYINTERMEDIAINTERMEDIN

Could you have found INTERMENT?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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