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MINGY
Definition of MINGY
adjective
Mean, miserly, stingy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of mean + stingy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MINGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MINGY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read GIMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MINGY?
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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