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MALADAPTS
Definition of MALADAPTS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of maladapt
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Word DNA
MALADAPTS inherits its ancestry from its root, MALADAPT.
How it is built
Same root, MALADAPT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MALADAPTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MALADAPTS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAADLMPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MALADA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MALADAPTS?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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