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MASCULINIZE
Definition of MASCULINIZE
verb
To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From masculine + -ize.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MASCULINIZE · 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.
MASCULINIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MASCULINIZE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEIILMNSUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start MASCULI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MASCULINIZE?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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