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MOULDER
Definition of MOULDER
verb
Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces. To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
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Where it comes from
From mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”). Mould is derived from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOULDER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MOULDER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DELMORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MOULDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found MOULDER?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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