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MILIEU
Definition of MILIEU
noun
An environment or setting; a medium; environs
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French milieu (“physical or social environment; group of people with a common point of view”), from Middle French milieu, meilleu, mileu, from Old French milliu, meillieu, mileu (“middle”), from mi- (prefix meaning ‘half’) (from Latin medius (“half; middle”)) + lieu, leu (“place”) (from Latin locus (“place; spot (specific location)”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 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, MILIEU · 2 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.
MILIEU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 243 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 14, 3 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MILIEU starts with M and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read EIILMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found MILIEU?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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