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MONEY
Definition of MONEY
noun
A generally accepted means of exchange.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azerbaijani or Turkmen.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,977)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MONEY · 10 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names German, Russian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MONEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MONEY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EMNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MONEY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found MONEY?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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