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MILDING
Definition of MILDING
Wiktionary has no entry for MILDING itself. This is its base word, MILD.
adjective
Gentle and not easily angered
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MILD.
From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”). Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MILDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MILDING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGIILMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found MILDING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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