The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

MISCHOOSE

9 letters

Definition of MISCHOOSE

verb

To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English mischeosen, mischesen, equivalent to mis- + choose.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,246)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundmis-

Same root, MISCHOOSE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

MISCHOOSE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its 2 boards, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
153
First board
162
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

wordynona

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MISCHOOSE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MISCHOOSE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHIMOOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and O appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start MISCHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MISCHOOSE?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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