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MELA
Definition of MELA
noun
A Hindu religious festival.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Urdu میلہ (mela)/Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit मेलक (melaka).
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.
MELA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 50, 9 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MELA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AELM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MELA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found MELA?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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