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MENDACIOUS
Definition of MENDACIOUS
adjective
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”), + -ious.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MENDACIOUS · 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.
MENDACIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 97 boards so far. 649 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 178, 14 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MENDACIOUS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIMNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MENDAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found MENDACIOUS?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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