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MERGANSER
Definition of MERGANSER
noun
Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MERGANSER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MERGANSER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEGMNRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once.
Could you have found MERGANSER?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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