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MOIL
Definition of MOIL
verb
To toil, to work hard.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
MOIL carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To work hard; toil.
“men who moil in mines.”
intransitive verb
To churn about continuously.
“clouds moiling in the wind.”
noun
Hard work; toil.
noun
Confusion; turmoil.
Where it comes from
From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MOIL · 11 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.
MOIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOIL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ILMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MOIL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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 MOIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found MOIL?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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