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OATMEAL

/ˈoʊtmil/7 letters

Definition of OATMEAL

noun

Meal made from rolled or round oats.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English otemele, from ote (“oat”) + mele (“meal, coarse-ground grains”). Equivalent to oat + meal.

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.

OATMEAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 12 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
12
First board
108
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.

Built from these letters

OATMEAL
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OATMEAL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAELMOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start OATMEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.

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