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MANILA
Definition of MANILA
adjective
Made of manila paper or material like it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Manila.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MANILA · 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.
MANILA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MANILA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAILMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found MANILA?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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