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MOST

/ˈməʊst/4 letters

Definition of MOST

determiner

superlative degree of much.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MOST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 98
Its 7 boards, across 98 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
33
First board
98
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

salmaa

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

MOST
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MOST starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read MOST - 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 MOST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MOSTEMOSTSMOSTLYMOSTESTMOSTESTSMOSTWHAT

Could you have found MOST?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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