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MILT

/mɪlt/4 letters

Definition of MILT

noun

The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,201)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, MILT · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish.

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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MILT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 51 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
51
Boards found on
25
First board
154
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

sixwinston

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MILT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MILT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MILT?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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