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LEMURS
Definition of LEMURS
noun
plural of lemur
noun
Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
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Word DNA
LEMURS inherits its ancestry from its root, LEMUR.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEMUR · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEMURS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
LEMURS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ELMRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found LEMURS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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