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MENISCOID

9 letters

Definition of MENISCOID

adjective

Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From meniscus + -oid.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

MENISCOID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 95
Its 3 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
72
First board
81
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

droseropterix

on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MENISCOID
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MENISCOID starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIMNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

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 MENISC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MENISCOID?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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