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MELODIOUS
Definition of MELODIOUS
adjective
Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (338)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MELODIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 140 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MELODIOUS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEILMOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start MELODI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found MELODIOUS?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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