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MINUTE

/ˈmɪnɪt/6 letters

Definition of MINUTE

noun

A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MINUTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 47 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 95
Its 18 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
25
First board
93
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

MINUTE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MINUTE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 MINUTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MINUTE?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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