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MELALEUCA
Definition of MELALEUCA
noun
Any member of the genus Melaleuca of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Translingual Melaleuca.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MELALEUCA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MELALEUCA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MELALEUCA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEELLMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, L and A appear more than once.
Could you have found MELALEUCA?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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