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MOTHER
Definition of MOTHER
noun
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and matter. Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.
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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.
MOTHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MOTHER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHMORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOTHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found MOTHER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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