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MISGUIDED
Definition of MISGUIDED
adjective
Of a person: lacking proper guidance; misled or mistaken in one's actions or thinking.
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Where it comes from
From misguide + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MISGUIDE · 2 relatives 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.
MISGUIDED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 141, 8 October 2026.
Built from these letters
MISGUIDED starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEGIIMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and D appear more than once.
Words that start MISGUI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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