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MILDING

/ˈmaɪld/7 letters

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).

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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.

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Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 3 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
30
First board
72
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

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

paulinee

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MILDING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

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