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PADEMELON

/ˈpædəmɛlən/9 letters

Definition of PADEMELON

noun

Any wallaby of the genus Thylogale of small macropods.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dharug badimaliyan.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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 8 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 8 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
70
First board
98
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

claidan

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

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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