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MEGARONS

8 letters

Definition of MEGARONS

noun

plural of megaron

MEGARON

noun

The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars.

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Word DNA

MEGARONS inherits its ancestry from its root, MEGARON.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,094)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, MEGARON · 2 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

MEGARONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its 5 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
72
First board
161
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

immunemaven

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MEGARONS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MEGARO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MEGARONS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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