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MENDACITY
Definition of MENDACITY
noun
The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
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Where it comes from
From Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being). Mendāx is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from mēns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)) + -āx (suffix forming adjectives expressing a tendency or inclination), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”). By surface analysis, Latin mendāc- + -ity.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MENDACITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 249 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MENDACITY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIMNTY - 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 20
Could you have found MENDACITY?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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