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MELODICA
Definition of MELODICA
noun
A free-reed keyboard wind instrument, often played with a flexible plastic tube connected to the mouthpiece.
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Where it comes from
Possibly a blend of melodeon + harmonica. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MELODICA · 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.
MELODICA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MELODICA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MELODI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found MELODICA?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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