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ROSEMALING
Definition of ROSEMALING
noun
A Norwegian style of stylized floral decoration with scrollwork and geometric elements.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaling (“rose painting”), from rose (“rose”) + maling (“painting”) (from male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -ing (suffix used to form nouns from verbs)). The form rosemåling is borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk rosemåling with unadapted script.
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.
ROSEMALING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROSEMALING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGILMNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROSEMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found ROSEMALING?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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