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MEATAL
Definition of MEATAL
adjective
Of, pertaining to or resembling a meatus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From meatus + -al.
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.
MEATAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
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
MEATAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAELMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found MEATAL?
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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