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MALT
Definition of MALT
noun
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,201)
How it is built
Same root, MALT · 10 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Czech, Dutch, Proto-Slavic, Russian, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MALT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MALT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ALMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MALT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found MALT?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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