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LEMON
Definition of LEMON
noun
A yellowish citrus fruit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.
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.
LEMON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 1, 22 May 2026.
Built from these letters
LEMON starts with L and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ELMNO - 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 LEMON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found LEMON?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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