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MAUVE
Definition of MAUVE
noun
A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MAUVE · 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.
MAUVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 74 boards so far. 472 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MAUVE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MAUVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found MAUVE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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