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MEGAPODE
Definition of MEGAPODE
noun
Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).
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.
MEGAPODE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEGAPODE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEGMOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start MEGAPO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEGAPODE?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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