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MERONYMS

8 letters

Definition of MERONYMS

noun

plural of meronym

MERONYM

noun

A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

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Word DNA

MERONYMS inherits its ancestry from its root, MERONYM.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.3%

of traced words share this origin (10,543)

Hellenic

branch · 12.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-onymmero-

Same root, MERONYM · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

MERONYMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
167
First board
172
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

buttsinc42069

on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MERONYMS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MERONY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MERONYMS?

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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.

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