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METOPISM
Definition of METOPISM
noun
The condition of having a persistent metopic or frontal suture.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From metope + -ism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
METOPISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
METOPISM starts with M and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EIMMOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once.
Could you have found METOPISM?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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