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MILES
Definition of MILES
noun
plural of mile
noun
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
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Word DNA
MILES inherits its ancestry from its root, MILE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MILE · 7 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MILES in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MILES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MILES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MILES?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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