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MASTERING

9 letters

Definition of MASTERING

adjective

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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.

MASTERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 16 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
26
First board
95
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

ishmomo

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MASTERING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start MASTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MASTERING?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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