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MIZUNA
Definition of MIZUNA
noun
One of several tangy green vegetables used in Japanese cuisine, usually Brassica rapa var. nipposinica
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese 水菜.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Japanese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
25th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (298)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MIZUNA · 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.
MIZUNA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MIZUNA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AIMNUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found MIZUNA?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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