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MESAL

5 letters

Definition of MESAL

adjective

Alternative form of mesial.

MESIAL

adjective

Pertaining to the midline of the body.

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Word DNA

MESAL inherits its ancestry from its root, MESIAL.

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

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,145)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, MESIAL · 2 relatives 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.

MESAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
55
First board
72
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 92 days.

First ever to find it

nonironi

on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MESAL
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MESAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start MESAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MESALLYMESALLIANCEMESALLIANCES

Could you have found MESAL?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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