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MALS

4 letters

Definition of MALS

noun

plural of mal

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 101
Its 3 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
55
First board
93
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 55, 14 July 2026.

Built from these letters

MALS
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MALS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start MALS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MALSTICKMALSTICKS

Could you have found MALS?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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