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MISERY
Definition of MISERY
noun
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser, equivalent to miser + -y. Doublet of misère and mizeria.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MISERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MISERY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EIMRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MISERY?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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