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MING
Definition of MING
verb
To mix, blend, mingle.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.
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.
MING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found MING?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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