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MONGREL
Definition of MONGREL
noun
Anything of mixed kind. A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix; mixture”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (990)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MONGREL · 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.
MONGREL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 93 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MONGREL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EGLMNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MONGRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found MONGREL?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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