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METAYAGE
Definition of METAYAGE
noun
A kind of sharecropping system.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
French métayage.
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.
METAYAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 93 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
METAYAGE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEEGMTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and A appear more than once.
Words that start METAYA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found METAYAGE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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