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MALIGNITY
Definition of MALIGNITY
noun
The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
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.
MALIGNITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MALIGNITY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGIILMNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start MALIGN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found MALIGNITY?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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