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MERENGUE

/məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/8 letters

Definition of MERENGUE

noun

A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.

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.

MERENGUE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
113
First board
120
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

hun

on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MERENGUE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MERENG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MERENGUE?

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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.

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