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MEROPIDAN
Definition of MEROPIDAN
noun
Any bird (such as the bee-eaters) of the family Meropidae
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Where it comes from
From the scientific translingual Meropidae + the English suffix -an.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MEROPIDAN · 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.
MEROPIDAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 89 days.
Built from these letters
MEROPIDAN starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADEIMNOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MEROPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEROPIDAN?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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