The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MAUVES
Definition of MAUVES
noun
plural of mauve
noun
A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
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Another sense
MAUVES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of mauve.
Word DNA
MAUVES inherits its ancestry from its root, MAUVE.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MAUVE · 1 relative in the game
MAUVES in a sentence
“But the whole season has been filled with earthy colors, such as dusky blues at Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors 's mauves and dove grays.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MAUVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAUVES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEMSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found MAUVES?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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