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MANUKA

/ˈmɑːnʊkə/6 letters

Definition of MANUKA

noun

Leptospermum scoparium, a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Māori mānuka.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

MANUKA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 5 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
42
First board
101
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

abi

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MANUKA
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MANUKA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MANUKA?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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