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MISGO

/mɪsˈɡəʊ/5 letters

Definition of MISGO

verb

To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

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

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,287)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllablescompoundmis-

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.

MISGO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 11 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
72
First board
147
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

joy

on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MISGO
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MISGO starts with M and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read GIMOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 MISGO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MISGOESMISGONEMISGOINGMISGOTTENMISGOVERNMISGOVERNSMISGOVERNEDMISGOVERNORMISGOVERNINGMISGOVERNMENTMISGOVERNMENTS

Could you have found MISGO?

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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