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MATEY
Definition of MATEY
adjective
Sociable or friendly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mate + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MATEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATEY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEMTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MATEY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MATEY?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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