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/mɔː/4 letters

Definition of MORE

determiner

comparative degree of many: in greater number.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,843)

How it is built

determiner1 syllable

Same root, MORE · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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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.

MORE in OUTLIER

It has fitted 1 board so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards it fitted
153
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

nanabnana

on Day 2, 23 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MORE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MORE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 MORE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MORE?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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