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MISTAL
Definition of MISTAL
noun
A cowshed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English *mystal, from myx (“dung”) + stal (“shed”). For the disappearance of /k/ before /st/, compare the disappearance of /x/ before /st/ in Anglian Old English hēst (“highest”), nēst (“nearest”), and sesta (“sixth”), surviving in Scots neest (“next”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,144)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MISTAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 127, 24 September 2026.
Built from these letters
MISTAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AILMST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MISTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MISTAL?
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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