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MELT
Definition of MELT
verb
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MELT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
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Built from these letters
MELT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ELMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MELT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found MELT?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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