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MAGNET
Definition of MAGNET
noun
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonists who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,695)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MAGNET · 1 relative 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.
MAGNET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MAGNET starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MAGNET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found MAGNET?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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