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METAL
Definition of METAL
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from. Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity. Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy. An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road. The ore from which a metal is derived. A mine from which ores are taken.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
METAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
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Built from these letters
METAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start METAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found METAL?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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