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MINIATURE
Definition of MINIATURE
noun
Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead, minium”). Not related to minimum, minor or min (which are all from a different root, *mi-n-), though the sense development may have been influenced by association with them or sound symbolism.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MINIATURE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MINIATURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MINIATURE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIIMNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start MINIAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MINIATURE?
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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