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MIDCULT
Definition of MIDCULT
noun
A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MIDCULT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 57 days.
First found by a player on Day 68, 27 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MIDCULT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CDILMTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MIDCULT?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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