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MISDEVELOP
Definition of MISDEVELOP
verb
To develop badly or wrongly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mis- + develop.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MISDEVELOP · 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.
MISDEVELOP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MISDEVELOP starts with M and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DEEILMOPSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start MISDEV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MISDEVELOP?
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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.
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