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MEIOFAUNAL
Definition of MEIOFAUNAL
adjective
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a meiofauna.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From meiofauna + -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.
MEIOFAUNAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEIOFAUNAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAEFILMNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MEIOFA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEIOFAUNAL?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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