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MINIM
Definition of MINIM
noun
A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French minime.
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.
MINIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MINIM starts with M and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read IIMMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M and I appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start MINIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MINIM?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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