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MIRLITON
Definition of MIRLITON
noun
A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French. Coined as a nonce to advertise a new women's bonnet, mirliton came to be applied to any trifle or trinket before acquiring several specific meanings. Compare the English word folderol.
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.
MIRLITON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MIRLITON starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IILMNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found MIRLITON?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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