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MEMBRANE
Definition of MEMBRANE
noun
A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin membrāna (“skin or membrane that covers parts of the body”), from membrum (“a limb or member of the body”) + -āna. Doublet of membrana.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MEMBRANE · 2 relatives 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.
MEMBRANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEMBRANE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEEMMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M and E appear more than once.
Words that start MEMBRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEMBRANE?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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