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MIGHT

/maɪt/5 letters

Definition of MIGHT

noun

Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English maught, might, miȝt, myght, from Old English maht, meaht, meht, mieht, miht, mæht (“ability, power; strength; virtue”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz (“ability, power; force, strength”), from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe (“to be able to, to have power”), from *megʰ- (“to be able”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”) + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th. Cognate with Scots micht (“might”), Yola mought (“might”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“might, power”), Luxembourgish Muecht (“authority, might, power”), Yiddish מאַכט (makht, “might, power”), Faroese and Icelandic máttur (“might, strength”), Danish magt (“power; force”), Norwegian Bokmål makt (“power”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish makt (“power; force”), mått (“might, power”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts, “ability, might, power”), and further to Irish smacht (“ordinance, regulation, rule; dominion, sway; control, discipline, restraint; fine, penalty”), Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician; sorcerer, wizard”), Lithuanian mėgti (“to like”), Belarusian моц (moc, “might, power”), Bulgarian мощ (mošt, “might, power”), Czech and Polish moc (“might, power”), Macedonian моќ (moḱ, “might, power”), Russian мочь (močʹ, “power, might”) and мощь (moščʹ, “force, strength”), Serbo-Croatian мо̑ћ, mȏć (“power; strength; potency; authority”), Slovene moč (“power; strength”), Ukrainian міч (mič) and міць (micʹ, “might, power”), Armenian մոգ (mog, “magus; fire-worshiper, Zoroastrian; astrologer; diviner, enchanter, sorcerer, wizard”), Persian مغ (moġ, “magus”), Sanskrit मघ (magha, “power, wealth; bounty, gift, reward”). See more at may.

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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.

MIGHT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 122
Its 26 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
13
First board
119
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

dand

on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MIGHT
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MIGHT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read GHIMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start MIGHT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MIGHTSMIGHTYMIGHTSTMIGHTESTMIGHTFULMIGHTIERMIGHTILYMIGHTIESTMIGHTINESSMIGHTINESSES

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