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MEDIC
Definition of MEDIC
adjective
Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin medicus m (“of or belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a noun, medicus, masculine, a physician, doctor, surgeon”), Late Latin medica f (“a female physician, midwife”), from mederi (“to heal”).
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.
MEDIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
MEDIC starts with M and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CDEIM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEDIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found MEDIC?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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