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MATERIALS

/məˈtɪɹi.əlz/9 letters

Definition of MATERIALS

noun

plural of material

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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.

MATERIALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 99
Its 8 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
8
First board
97
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

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Built from these letters

MATERIALS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MATERI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MATERIALMATERIELMATERIELSMATERIALLYMATERIALISEMATERIALISMMATERIALISTMATERIALITYMATERIALIZEMATERIALISEDMATERIALISESMATERIALISMS

Could you have found MATERIALS?

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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