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MEADOW

/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/6 letters

Definition of MEADOW

noun

A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MEADOW in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 101
Its 28 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
23
First board
101
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

Built from these letters

MEADOW
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MEADOW starts with M and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read ADEMOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start MEADOW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MEADOWSMEADOWYMEADOWLANDMEADOWLARKMEADOWLANDSMEADOWLARKSMEADOWSWEETMEADOWSWEETS

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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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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