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PADEMELON

/ˈpædəmɛlən/9 letters

Definition of PADEMELON

noun

Any wallaby of the genus Thylogale of small macropods.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dharug badimaliyan.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun4 syllables

Same root, PADEMELON · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

PADEMELON in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 12 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
70
First board
120
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First found by a player on Day 70, 29 July 2026.

Built from these letters

PADEMELON
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PADEMELON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADEELMNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start PADEME

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PADEMELON?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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