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MERISM
Definition of MERISM
noun
A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low".
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Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek μερισμός (merismós). Compare μέρος (méros, “part”). lock, stock, and barrel (the whole gun)signed, sealed, and delivered (the whole process of communicating)
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.
MERISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MERISM starts with M and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EIMMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MERISM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MERISM?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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