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MINNOW
Definition of MINNOW
noun
Any of certain small fish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,433)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MINNOW · 1 relative 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.
MINNOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MINNOW starts with M and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read IMNNOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found MINNOW?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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