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MAIDENISH
Definition of MAIDENISH
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From maiden + -ish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MAIDENISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAIDENISH starts with M and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ADEHIIMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start MAIDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found MAIDENISH?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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