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MASQUE
Definition of MASQUE
noun
A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French masque. Doublet of mask and mesh.
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.
MASQUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MASQUE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MASQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MASQUE?
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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