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METER
Definition of METER
noun
A device that measures things. A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc. Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).
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.
METER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
METER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start METER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found METER?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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