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MERINO
Definition of MERINO
noun
A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish merino.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (442)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MERINO · 1 relative 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.
MERINO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.
Built from these letters
MERINO starts with M and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read EIMNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MERINO?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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