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MELANCHOLIES
Definition of MELANCHOLIES
noun
plural of melancholy
noun
Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
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Word DNA
MELANCHOLIES inherits its ancestry from its root, MELANCHOLY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,337)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MELANCHOLY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MELANCHOLIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MELANCHOLIES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEHILLMNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once.
Words that start MELANCHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MELANCHOLIES?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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