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MACHAIR

7 letters

Definition of MACHAIR

noun

A type of calcareous sandy terrain formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in areas of Scotland and Ireland.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic machair.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

MACHAIR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 100
Its 7 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
29
First board
98
Latest board
44
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

hildegard

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

MACHAIR
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MACHAIR starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACHIMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start MACHAI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MACHAIR?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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