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MOISTIER

8 letters

Definition of MOISTIER

adjective

comparative form of moisty: more moisty

MOISTY

adjective

moist

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Word DNA

MOISTIER inherits its ancestry from its root, MOISTY.

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

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (5,012)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, MOISTY · 1 relative in the game

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.

MOISTIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
147
First board
152
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

ah1234

on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MOISTIER
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MOISTIER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIIMORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start MOISTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MOISTIFYMOISTINGMOISTIFIEDMOISTIFIESMOISTIFYING

Could you have found MOISTIER?

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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.

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