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MERCURIALS
Definition of MERCURIALS
noun
plural of mercurial
noun
Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
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Word DNA
MERCURIALS inherits its ancestry from its root, MERCURIAL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MERCURIAL · 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.
MERCURIALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MERCURIALS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEILMRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start MERCUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MERCURIALS?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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