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MALADJUST
Definition of MALADJUST
verb
To adjust badly or wrongly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mal- + adjust.
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.
MALADJUST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 105, 2 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 105, 2 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MALADJUST starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AADJLMSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start MALADJ
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MALADJUST?
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 105 - and most players walked straight past it.
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