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MELTAGE

7 letters

Definition of MELTAGE

noun

The process of melting.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From melt + -age.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-age

Same root, MELTAGE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MELTAGE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its 2 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
144
First board
145
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

genegirl

on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MELTAGE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MELTAGE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEGLMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start MELTAG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MELTAGE?

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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.

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