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MELILOTS
Definition of MELILOTS
noun
plural of melilot
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Word DNA
MELILOTS inherits its ancestry from its root, MELILOT.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,506)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MELILOT · 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.
MELILOTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MELILOTS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILLMOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Could you have found MELILOTS?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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