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MORTLING
Definition of MORTLING
noun
An animal, such as a sheep, that has died of disease or privation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mort + -ling. Compare morkin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MORTLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 57 days.
Built from these letters
MORTLING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GILMNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MORTLING?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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