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MISCOLOR

8 letters

Definition of MISCOLOR

verb

Alternative form of miscolour.

MISCOLOUR

verb

To give a wrong colour to.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English miscolouren. By surface analysis, mis- + color.

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

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,790)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundmis-

Same root, MISCOLOR · 1 relative 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.

MISCOLOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 2 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
119
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.

First ever to find it

hoppy

on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MISCOLOR
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MISCOLOR starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CILMOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start MISCOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MISCOLOR?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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